Senior Data Engineer — Cloud Data Pipelines & Platforms

Answer Digital Limited.; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible annual leave

Bonuses (biannual)

Job summary

Answer Digital Limited in Leeds is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape modern data infrastructure for client digital transformation journeys. You’ll own data modelling, orchestration, observability, and SI/CI processes on high-impact projects with a collaborative team.

You’ll routinely design data flows and platform architecture, drive task estimation, and uphold data quality while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to bids for new opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and running production data pipelines across relational and NoSQL sources.
• Strong SQL and Python, and experience with an orchestration framework.
• Experience building semantic models and reports using BI tools (PowerBI).
• Knowledge of cloud data technologies (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric).
• Familiarity with data modelling, ETL/ELT and data governance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Own areas of client projects such as data modelling, orchestration or observability.
• Contribute to requirements analysis and high-level solution design for data flows and platform architecture.
• Lead breakdown of requirements into tasks and estimate work with the team.
• Maintain data engineering quality: pipeline testing, monitoring, CI/CD, source control.
• Assess impact of data and platform changes before deployment.
• Engage in technical discussions and align stakeholders on data decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers and support their delivery and learning.
• Identify tooling and process improvements, including AI-assisted approaches.
• Contribute to bids and proposals for new client opportunities.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data modelling

PowerBI

Cloud data platforms

Orchestration (Airflow)

AI in engineering

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

CI/CD

Job description

Answer Digital Limited in Leeds is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape modern data infrastructure for client digital transformation journeys. You’ll own data modelling, orchestration, observability, and SI/CI processes on high-impact projects with a collaborative team.

You’ll routinely design data flows and platform architecture, drive task estimation, and uphold data quality while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to bids for new opportunities.