Senior Data Engineer — AI-Driven Databricks Platform

cw; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Learning time

Growth path

Strong technical foundation

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to advance transformation projects across EMEA and APAC. You will work with a Databricks-based Lakehouse and collaborate with an analytic engineering team to push the frontier of AI-enabled data platform development.

The role involves architectural decisions, building agentic workflows, data modeling, and designing stable ingestion pipelines, with responsibility for production troubleshooting and data quality reporting.

Qualifications

• Around 6 or more years of relevant experience.
• A degree in a quantitatively rigorous field such as computer science, data science, econometrics, mathematics, or physics.
• Driven and curious. You want to work on things that have not been figured out yet.
• Strong written communication. Async updates and clear documentation are part of the job.

Responsibilities

• Driving the shift from a code writing team to an AI orchestration team, building agentic workflows for data engineering tasks and CI/CD.
• Stewarding our AI amplified Databricks based framework, maintaining and improving it.
• Designing data models that bring sources from anywhere in the world into a single coherent shape.
• Building data solutions for domains like custom MDM, geocoding, client mastering, and profiling, with real estate context as a plus.
• Designing and implementing stable, automated ingestion pipelines from diverse sources.
• Owning production troubleshooting and root cause analysis, diagnosing and resolving pipeline failures and data quality issues.
• Reporting on data quality and shipping improvements that move the metrics.

Skills

Systems thinking

Root cause analysis

Data modeling

Advanced SQL

Python / PySpark

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Unity Catalog

Job description

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to advance transformation projects across EMEA and APAC. You will work with a Databricks-based Lakehouse and collaborate with an analytic engineering team to push the frontier of AI-enabled data platform development.

The role involves architectural decisions, building agentic workflows, data modeling, and designing stable ingestion pipelines, with responsibility for production troubleshooting and data quality reporting.