Databricks Data Engineer: Production Pipelines & Lakehouse

Nimble Approach; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Champion Fund £2k for L&D

Westfield health care

Company pension

Wellness program

Relaxed client-focused culture

Tech meetups and team activities

Job summary

Nimble Approach is building a dedicated Databricks practice and seeks a hands-on data engineer to help scale it from day one. You will design and build production pipelines and lakehouse platforms on Databricks, delivering reliable, governed data platforms for client projects.

You will own meaningful pieces of work, grow your Databricks expertise, and contribute to accelerators and delivery standards as the practice expands.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Databricks experience building/maintaining production pipelines.
• Strong PySpark and SQL skills for tuning Spark performance.
• Understanding Delta Lake, medallion architecture, data modelling and ingestion patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines on Databricks.
• Develop lakehouse platforms with Delta Lake and Unity Catalog governance.
• Apply CI/CD and IaC to deliver repeatable, observable solutions.
• Collaborate with client engineers to understand requirements and communicate options clearly.
• Build reusable accelerators, templates and delivery patterns.

Skills

Databricks experience

PySpark

SQL

Lakehouse fundamentals

CI/CD

Terraform

Git

Client communication

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Nimble Approach is building a dedicated Databricks practice and seeks a hands-on data engineer to help scale it from day one. You will design and build production pipelines and lakehouse platforms on Databricks, delivering reliable, governed data platforms for client projects.

You will own meaningful pieces of work, grow your Databricks expertise, and contribute to accelerators and delivery standards as the practice expands.