Senior Data Engineer: Build a Greenfield Platform | Hybrid & Flexi

Maxwell Bond; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 10% bonus

Hybrid working across 2 sites

Flexi time

Shape data function and influence tech

Job summary

Maxwell Bond are partnering with a growing Manchester business to appoint a Senior Data Engineer who will shape its data capabilities and own a greenfield data platform. You will drive ingestion, storage and modelling while ensuring data quality and governance to support analytics and AI initiatives.

You’ll work closely with the CTO and wider tech team, setting standards and guiding the data function as the platform evolves.

Qualifications

• Commercial Data Engineering experience combining hands-on delivery with architecture input
• Strong SQL skills across relational databases; understanding NoSQL and time-series data
• Experience building data platforms such as data lakes, lakehouses or warehouses
• Proficient in data ingestion, transformation and modelling
• Pragmatic, collaborative approach to scalable data solutions with governance and analytics readiness

Responsibilities

• Design and build a modern data platform to handle high-volume data
• Lead data ingestion, storage and modelling across databases
• Establish data quality and retention strategies for a scalable foundation
• Collaborate with CTO and tech teams to shape platform decisions and prioritise improvements
• Set engineering standards and provide guidance for the wider data function

Skills

Data engineering

SQL expertise

Relational databases

NoSQL

Time-series data

Data platforms

Ingestion & modelling

Data quality & governance

AI/ML readiness

Collaborative approach

Job description

Maxwell Bond are partnering with a growing Manchester business to appoint a Senior Data Engineer who will shape its data capabilities and own a greenfield data platform. You will drive ingestion, storage and modelling while ensuring data quality and governance to support analytics and AI initiatives.

You’ll work closely with the CTO and wider tech team, setting standards and guiding the data function as the platform evolves.