Senior Data Engineer

Burns Sheehan; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Income protection

Salary sacrifice schemes

Extra holiday with tenure

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Limited is recruiting a Senior Data Engineer for a fast-growing consumer tech client. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, work with Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster/dbt, and AWS, and help scale the data platform used for decision-making.

Fully remote within the UK, with private health insurance, income protection, salary sacrifice schemes, and extra holiday with tenure as part of the package.

Qualifications

• Senior‑level data engineer with solid software engineering habits.
• Confident Python and SQL in production.
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster or Airflow, and AWS.
• Startup or scale‑up background, comfortable with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining scalable pipelines in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt and AWS.
• Owning projects end to end, from ingestion through to analytics.
• Building a proper staging and testing environment, and improving monitoring, alerting and data quality.
• Contributing to CDC and lower-latency data work.

Skills

Senior-level data engineer

Python in production

SQL proficiency

Startup/scale-up background

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

AWS

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing consumer tech company, and they’re hiring a Senior Data Engineer to help scale the data platform behind decision-making across the business. It’s a high-ownership role in a team of 5.

What you’ll be doing

• Building and maintaining scalable pipelines in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt and AWS
• Owning projects end to end, from ingestion through to analytics
• Building a proper staging and testing environment, and improving monitoring, alerting and data quality
• Contributing to CDC and lower-latency data work

What they’re looking for

• Senior-level data engineer with solid software engineering habits
• Confident Python and SQL in production
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster or Airflow, and AWS
• Startup or scale-up background, comfortable with ambiguity

What’s on offer

• £85,000 - £100,000, fully remote within the UK
• Private health insurance, income protection and salary sacrifice schemes
• Extra holiday with tenure