Senior Data Engineer

Vivid Housing; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Bonus scheme

Pension 6% match 7–10%

Life assurance 3x salary

Private medical insurance

Medicash

Enhanced parental leave

Counselling services

Electric car scheme

Learning & mentoring programs

Job summary

VIVID is seeking a talented Senior Data Engineer to join our team in Portsmouth or Basingstoke. This permanent, full-time role is 37 hours per week with at least 20% office-based collaboration.

You’ll shape and evolve a modern Azure data platform, building secure, scalable pipelines using Azure Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse, Delta Lake, SQL, Python and PySpark. You will mentor engineers and drive best practices across CI/CD and testing.

Qualifications

• Experience designing data pipelines on Azure data platform.
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers within a data function.
• Strong collaboration across teams to deliver production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise secure, scalable data pipelines.
• Evolve a modern Azure data platform with best practices.
• Lead on CI/CD, automated testing and platform optimisation.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Delta Lake

SQL

Python

PySpark

Data pipelines

Job description

We’re VIVID! – We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!

We’re recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team Portsmouth or Basingstoke! This is a permanent, full time role working 37 hours a week, with a minimum of 20% of this to be office based to promote collaboration and team working within the team and other colleagues across the business.

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s the facts about the role:

We're looking for a talented Senior Data Engineer to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping to establish reusable patterns, engineering standards and automated delivery practices. As well as improving platform performance, reliability and cost efficiency while supporting the development of other engineers.

In this role you’ll play a key role in shaping and evolving a modern Azure data platform. Working with technologies including Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Delta Lake, SQL, Python and PySpark, you'll design, build and optimise secure, scalable data pipelines and trusted data products that support reporting, self-service analytics, advanced analytics and AI initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to help drive best practice, and contribute to data-driven decision making across VIVID.

As a senior member of the team, you'll collaborate closely with colleagues across the business to deliver robust, production-ready solutions. You'll lead on engineering standards, CI/CD practices, automated testing and platform optimisation while mentoring other engineers and supporting the continued development of a high-performing data function. Your work will directly contribute to delivering excellent services for our customers and ensuring data is managed securely, efficiently and responsibly.

Please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description for a full breakdown of the skills, experience and qualifications required for this role.

Interviews are due to take place 14 September (subject to change).