Greenfield Data Platform Lead | Hybrid + 10% Bonus

Interface Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday (buy/sell 5)

Birthday off

Pension

10% Bonus

Share Plan

Health cash plan

Company sick pay

Job summary

Interface Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing professional services group to recruit a senior Data Platform Lead in Manchester. The role combines hands-on data engineering with strategic input, building a core data platform from the ground up and delivering reporting for executives.

You will work directly with the CTO, shaping a pragmatic data strategy, while hands-on designing, coding, and delivering end-to-end data solutions in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Experience building a data platform from scratch in greenfield environments.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Strong Python experience for pipelines and automation.
• Deep knowledge of ETL/ELT design and orchestration.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure data services.
• Experience with Azure Databricks or similar.
• Strong Power BI capability including modeling and governance.
• Experience integrating data from multiple business systems.
• Ability to balance immediate reporting with long-term architecture.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable data platform using the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Develop ingestion, transformation and orchestration pipelines.
• Integrate data from finance, CRM and other platforms.
• Define target architecture across lakehouse/warehouse and semantic layers.
• Create robust dimensional and semantic data models.
• Deliver high-quality Power BI dashboards for reporting.
• Standardise KPIs and data definitions across the group.
• Move reporting towards a trusted single source of truth.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into practical data products.
• Establish governance covering data quality, security and GDPR.
• Lay foundations for a future data team and ways of working.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Data architecture

Data modeling

Power BI

Stakeholder mgmt

Data integration

Cloud data platforms

Governance

Tools

Azure Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data services

Job description

Interface Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing professional services group to recruit a senior Data Platform Lead in Manchester. The role combines hands-on data engineering with strategic input, building a core data platform from the ground up and delivering reporting for executives.

You will work directly with the CTO, shaping a pragmatic data strategy, while hands-on designing, coding, and delivering end-to-end data solutions in a hybrid setup.