Data Engineer - AI-Driven Education Data Platform

Let Me Play; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bank holidays

Enhanced family leave

Medical plan

Life insurance

Pension contributions

Learning & development

Volunteer days

Discounts

Job summary

Supporting Education Group is hiring a Data Engineer to build a cloud-native data platform that unifies insights across brands and enables automated, personalised analytics.

You will work with Databricks, Azure Synapse, and open-source BI tools to move from legacy silos to a scalable, governed architecture, delivering reusable data sets and data products for smarter decisions across the group.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer in a complex, multi-brand or multi-function environment.
• Hands-on expertise with Databricks, Azure Synapse, and cloud-native data architectures.
• Fluent in Python – extensive use to build, orchestrate, and optimise data pipelines.
• Experience ingesting and transforming data from external sources into governed, reusable layers.
• Familiarity with open-source BI tools (e.g. MetaBase) and enabling self-serve analytics across distributed teams.
• Exposure to data product thinking – designing reusable, trusted datasets for decisions and automation.
• Experience building endpoints into Power BI, MetaBase, and HubSpot/Salesforce for reporting and activation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines across diverse data sources.
• Implement and optimise solutions using Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows).
• Build out our Azure Synapse environment to support high-performance analytics and data warehousing.
• Ingest and transform external datasets into unified, governed layers.
• Design and deliver reusable, trusted data sets using a bronze-silver-gold architecture.
• Enable self-serve analytics across the group by delivering trusted data sets via Medallion Architecture and open-source BI tools.
• Build and maintain endpoints into Power BI and MetaBase for reporting and activation, including HubSpot triggers.

Job description

Supporting Education Group is hiring a Data Engineer to build a cloud-native data platform that unifies insights across brands and enables automated, personalised analytics.

You will work with Databricks, Azure Synapse, and open-source BI tools to move from legacy silos to a scalable, governed architecture, delivering reusable data sets and data products for smarter decisions across the group.