Senior Data Engineer — Azure Databricks Leader (Hands-On)

Goodman Masson; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodman Masson is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Enterprise Data function in London. This hands‑on role requires technical excellence and the ability to mentor other engineers.

The candidate will build scalable data solutions on Azure Databricks, Python and SQL, and contribute to architecture decisions, data modelling and governance.

You will lead by example, review designs, and help drive CI/CD, testing and platform reliability across the data team.

Qualifications

• Five to seven years in data engineering.
• Strong and current Azure Databricks experience.
• Advanced Python, PySpark and SQL skills.
• Knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and data modelling.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Storage.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and Azure resource management.
• Solid understanding of software engineering, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Recent experience leading or mentoring Data Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex data engineering work.
• Provide day‑to‑day technical leadership to other engineers.
• Act as the number‑two technologist within the Enterprise Data team.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data modelling

CI/CD

Automated testing

Code review

Software engineering principles

Leadership / mentoring

Tools

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

Terraform

Job description

Goodman Masson is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Enterprise Data function in London. This hands‑on role requires technical excellence and the ability to mentor other engineers.

The candidate will build scalable data solutions on Azure Databricks, Python and SQL, and contribute to architecture decisions, data modelling and governance.

You will lead by example, review designs, and help drive CI/CD, testing and platform reliability across the data team.