Contract Data Engineer — Databricks & Medallion Data Hub

Akkodis; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are recruiting a Contract Data Engineer in Manchester. You will be hands-on with Databricks, Python and SQL to evolve a Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture, strengthen data quality, and deliver reliable data products.

The role involves 1–2 days on-site weekly within a growing data function. Join analysts, developers and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions that support reporting and

Qualifications

• Hands-on with Databricks, Python and SQL to build and maintain data products.
• Experience building data pipelines and data models.
• Understanding of data quality controls and governance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, optimise and enhance an existing Databricks environment.
• Build and improve scalable data pipelines using Spark and Databricks best practices.
• Develop reusable data engineering patterns across multiple data domains.
• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline failures, performance issues and data incidents.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Build and evolve Bronze, Silver and Gold data layers and corresponding transformations.
• Design Gold-layer data models in collaboration with stakeholders.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

Spark

Data pipelines

Data quality

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Job description

Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are recruiting a Contract Data Engineer in Manchester. You will be hands-on with Databricks, Python and SQL to evolve a Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture, strengthen data quality, and deliver reliable data products.

The role involves 1–2 days on-site weekly within a growing data function. Join analysts, developers and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions that support reporting and