Data Engineer, Data Products & Governance (Databricks)

Burberry; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to own data products underpinning reporting and analytics. You will operate within cross-functional squads, collaborating with Data Product Managers, Data Platform Engineers, and Visualization teams to ensure governance and enterprise-ready data delivery.

The role focuses on transforming ingested data into governed data products, maintaining data contracts, and embedding quality controls across the transformation layer.

Qualifications

• Experience in a data engineering role building data models and transformation layers.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data models and transformation logic to turn ingested data into governed products across domains such as Customer, Product, Order, Sale, and Supply Chain.
• Manage the engineering layer between platform-level ingestion and reporting/visualisation output to ensure data is consumable to enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with Data and Solution Architects to ensure work aligns with enterprise data models and platform strategy.
• Work with Data Platform Engineers to consume data from the enterprise platform (Databricks), applying business logic to create clean, reusable products.
• Provide governed data products to the Visualisation & Reporting team, ensuring alignment with enterprise data definitions and the business glossary.
• Embed quality controls, validation, testing, and monitoring into the transformation layer by design.
• Maintain clear documentation of business rules, data lineage, and transformation logic to support team-wide consistency.
• Define and maintain data contracts, data product versioning and semantic-readiness requirements so downstream teams have stable and predictable consumption points.
• Embed privacy, PII handling, retention and access-control requirements into transformation logic in line with Data Governance, Cyber Security and platform guardrails.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

ETL/ELT

Data modelling

CI/CD

Databricks

Data governance

Data quality

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Parquet

Job description

Burberry is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to own data products underpinning reporting and analytics. You will operate within cross-functional squads, collaborating with Data Product Managers, Data Platform Engineers, and Visualization teams to ensure governance and enterprise-ready data delivery.

The role focuses on transforming ingested data into governed data products, maintaining data contracts, and embedding quality controls across the transformation layer.