Data Engineer

Recruit with Purpose; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension contribution

Hybrid work model

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Recruit with Purpose in Leeds is seeking a Data Engineer to help build a Microsoft Fabric-based data platform from the ground up. You’ll design pipelines and structures powering analytics across the business, with a hands-on role that shapes engineering standards.

The position is hybrid, requiring occasional office visits near Leeds; the salary is £57,500 with a strong benefits package including an excellent pension contribution, and opportunities to influence architectural decisions as the

Qualifications

• Experience with modern Microsoft data tooling (Fabric preferred; Azure and Databricks transferable).
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and working with ETL/ELT processes.
• Strong SQL with PySpark or similar.
• Understanding of modern data architectures (lakehouse, medallion patterns).
• Experience with CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, quality, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building data pipelines.
• Building into a Microsoft Fabric data platform.
• Implementing best practice across CI/CD, testing, and automation.
• Supporting cloud migration and the move towards a Fabric environment.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions.
• Mentoring team members and helping improve engineering standards.

Skills

SQL

PySpark

Data pipelines

Data modeling

CI/CD

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

ETL/ELT

Azure

Job description

Are you a Data Engineer who wants to help build a Microsoft Fabric platform from the ground up?

This Housing Association in Leeds is investing heavily in its data capability, with a clear move towards a modern Azure-based platform centred around Microsoft Fabric. The foundation of modern Microsoft tooling is there, but now they need someone to play a key role in the greenfield move.

As Data Engineer, you’ll be a vital part of designing and building the pipelines and structures that will underpin analytics across the business.

It’s a great role for someone who enjoys being hands-on but also wants to step into a position where they can influence best practices across analytics.

As Data Engineer, you’ll be working on:

• Designing and building data pipelines
• Building into a Microsoft Fabric data platform
• Implementing best practice across CI/CD, testing, and automation
• Supporting cloud migration and the move towards a Fabric environment
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions
• Mentoring team members and helping improve engineering standards

This is stage one of the move towards Fabric data platform, and this role sits right at the centre of that journey. So you won’t just be working on bits and pieces of an already structured environment, you’ll be building and shaping how data engineering is done across the organisation.

You’ll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions and engineering standards as the platform evolves so this is a great role for progression and growth.

You would be an excellent fit as Data Engineer if you have:

• Experience with modern Microsoft data tooling (Ideally Fabric although Azure and Databricks will be transferable)
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and working with ETL/ELT processes
• SQL and experience with PySpark or similar
• Understanding of modern data architectures (lakehouse, medallion patterns)
• Experience with CI/CD and Azure DevOps
• Solid understanding of data modelling, quality, and governance

This is a hybrid role where you should be able to go into the office near Leeds on occasion (once or twice a month)

The salary is £57,500 with a good benefits package including an excellent pension contribution.

If you’re a Data Engineer who wants to be part of a greenfield Fabric project, then this would be an amazing opportunity for you!