Data Engineering Lead - Azure, Fabric, Hybrid

Chroma Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Benefits package

Job summary

Chroma Recruitment in Manchester is seeking a Data Engineering Lead to head a team of eight engineers across platform operations and engineering. The role combines leadership with hands-on SQL/Azure work as the firm moves from on-prem and Azure to a full cloud platform, likely Microsoft Fabric.

You will translate data architecture into standards, own CI/CD for data assets, and travel to London regularly for stakeholder engagement. Hybrid working with 2–3 days on site is required.

Qualifications

• Very strong SQL is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of eight data engineers, including offshore resource.

Skills

SQL

Data engineering

Team leadership

Azure data services

CI/CD

Source control

Release management

Incident management

Tools

Azure Synapse

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Chroma Recruitment in Manchester is seeking a Data Engineering Lead to head a team of eight engineers across platform operations and engineering. The role combines leadership with hands-on SQL/Azure work as the firm moves from on-prem and Azure to a full cloud platform, likely Microsoft Fabric.

You will translate data architecture into standards, own CI/CD for data assets, and travel to London regularly for stakeholder engagement. Hybrid working with 2–3 days on site is required.