Lead Data Engineer - Azure Lakehouse & Cloud Pipelines

FSP; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Benefits package

Job summary

FSP in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Data & AI function. You will work with architects and consultants to deliver data solutions across cloud platforms, enabling scalable, automated decision making.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and technical design across Azure Databricks, Lakehouse patterns, and Microsoft Fabric, with a strong focus on data governance, security, and CI/CD practices. Hybrid working options available.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data engineering solutions.
• Microsoft Fabric experience including Lakehouse, Data Factory, Warehouse and Spark.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, PySpark, Delta Live Tables and Databricks Workflows.
• Knowledge of Azure Data Platform services, including ADF, ADLS Gen2, Azure Synapse Analytics.
• A strong background in Python and SQL development.
• Proven experience building batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Experience implementing Medallion Architecture and Lakehouse patterns.
• Strong understanding of data modelling techniques (dimensional, star schema, data vault).
• Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices, Git-based source control and deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and access control.

Responsibilities

• You will work as key member of our Data Engineering team, mentoring others within the team.
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions and mentor team members.
• Operate as a technical lead across multiple projects and teams.
• Understand customer requirements and design data solutions delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Enable higher quality data to be created and managed in customers’ organisations.
• Develop data products using cloud-native patterns.
• Engineer cloud-based data lake patterns to connect and leverage data.
• Provide technical support through prototyping, testing, build and launch of data products.
• Contribute to technical design documentation and development standards.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Python

SQL

Cloud data engineering

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Databricks

Power BI

Git & CI/CD

Delta Lake

Azure Synapse

Job description

FSP in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Data & AI function. You will work with architects and consultants to deliver data solutions across cloud platforms, enabling scalable, automated decision making.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and technical design across Azure Databricks, Lakehouse patterns, and Microsoft Fabric, with a strong focus on data governance, security, and CI/CD practices. Hybrid working options available.