Data Engineer – Flexible Education Insights Platform

GLF Schools; Banstead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local government pension

Flexible working options

Generous holiday allowance

Healthcare benefits

Work life policies

Job summary

GLF Schools seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to power One GLF Insights. You will own data pipelines, lakehouses and governance, turning complex information into trusted insights for pupils, staff and schools.

Working with the Head of Data, you will extend the platform across education, finance and operations, ensuring quality, security and sustainability while shaping architecture and ways of working from an early stage.

Qualifications

• Experience building modern cloud data platforms (Microsoft Fabric or Azure)
• Strong Python, PySpark and SQL skills with data lakehouse experience
• Experience with Power BI, DAX and row-level security
• Disciplined approach to data quality, testing and monitoring
• Understanding of data protection and handling of sensitive information
• Ability to translate operational needs into trusted data products

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and optimise data pipelines and transformations using Fabric tools
• Develop Bronze, Silver and Gold data layers and reusable processing frameworks
• Create automated data-quality, reconciliation, logging and recovery controls
• Develop governed Power BI semantic models and shared dimensions
• Implement secure access with dynamic row-level security and least-privilege controls
• Handover pipelines to internal ownership with source control and testing
• Collaborate with education, finance, HR, MIS, IT and schools to turn needs into data products

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data modelling

Power BI

Data quality

Security & privacy

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Delta tables

Lakehouse

Job description

GLF Schools seeks a hands-on Data Engineer to power One GLF Insights. You will own data pipelines, lakehouses and governance, turning complex information into trusted insights for pupils, staff and schools.

Working with the Head of Data, you will extend the platform across education, finance and operations, ensuring quality, security and sustainability while shaping architecture and ways of working from an early stage.