Senior Data Engineer: Databricks & AI Platform

Centrica; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrica Energy is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in London to own the FinTRACE Databricks platform, shaping data engineering, analytics and AI workloads for Finance and Risk Technology.

You will set standards, drive platform modernization, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver trusted data capabilities and scalable data products that support smarter energy trading decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise data platform engineering at scale.
• Proven track record with large Databricks implementations.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap for FinTRACE Databricks platform across Finance and Risk Technology.
• Set engineering standards and patterns for scalable data products.
• Translate business priorities into platform capabilities for easy access and governance.
• Define and deliver AI/data intelligence roadmap enabling AI/ML use cases on trusted data.
• Lead platform transformation, migration and modernization to reduce technical debt.
• Oversee platform governance, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Act as Databricks technical authority and coach engineers.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Spark

Data Lakehouse

Azure Data Services

SQL

Data governance

Platform engineering

Leadership

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Job description

Centrica Energy is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in London to own the FinTRACE Databricks platform, shaping data engineering, analytics and AI workloads for Finance and Risk Technology.

You will set standards, drive platform modernization, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver trusted data capabilities and scalable data products that support smarter energy trading decisions.