Senior Data Engineer: Azure Reporting for Capital Projects

NRL; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The NRL Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape and deliver data reporting solutions for large-scale capital projects. Based in the UK with a hybrid pattern, you will work with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data solutions, ensuring data lineage and governance.

You’ll derive metrics, integrate diverse data sources, and build a robust data model on an Azure Data Platform. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery and collaboration across programmes.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering reporting products from concept to go-live under tight deadlines.
• Experience with cost, schedule, risk and safety data within capital delivery projects.
• Requirements-led data modelling, including dimensional modelling and layered warehouse design.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills.
• Professional-level experience with Azure Data Platform (Data Factory or Fabric, Synapse or SQL) and Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Derive reporting metrics by working backwards from the required decision to the source data.
• Extract and integrate data from multiple sources, including APIs, exports and structured manual inputs.
• Handle complex sources such as Excel, XML (including XER/P6), PDFs and scanned documents with careful validation.
• Develop and maintain a robust data model across raw, conformed and reporting layers.
• Build governance into every step, including reconciliation, lineage tracking and exception reporting.
• Design and operate the reporting and Azure data platform to production-level standards.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Azure Data Platform

Power BI

XER/P6 XML parsing

Job description

The NRL Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape and deliver data reporting solutions for large-scale capital projects. Based in the UK with a hybrid pattern, you will work with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data solutions, ensuring data lineage and governance.

You’ll derive metrics, integrate diverse data sources, and build a robust data model on an Azure Data Platform. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery and collaboration across programmes.