Senior Data Engineer – Hybrid/Remote Azure Data Platform

Harvey Nash; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in the UK to join a hybrid/remote setup on a 3‑month contract with potential extension. You will design, build and improve secure data processing services, maintain pipelines and data models, and ensure data quality and compliance across regulated environments.

The role requires strong SQL, Azure data stack experience (ADF, Synapse, Fabric, Databricks), Python/PySpark, and DBT expertise.

Qualifications

• Senior data engineer with strong SQL and data modelling experience.
• Experience with the Azure data stack including ADF, Synapse, Fabric and Databricks.
• Experience building ETL and ELT pipelines.
• Proficiency with Python and PySpark is preferred.
• Experience with dbt or similar data transformation tools.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as ADF, Airflow or Prefect.
• Familiar with CI/CD, Git and Azure DevOps.
• Comfortable in secure or regulated environments.
• Delivery-focused and able to work independently and hit the ground running.
• Experience supporting sensitive data, data protection, pseudonymisation and compliance work.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and improve secure data processing services.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and transformation processes.
• Support data ingestion, validation and processing workflows.
• Design and maintain data models.
• Improve data quality, metadata and documentation.
• Support onboarding of new data sets.
• Create secure, repeatable data engineering processes.
• Resolve BAU issues and help ensure platform stability.
• Work across engineering, governance and infrastructure teams.
• Support a secure cloud-based data environment handling sensitive data for research and analytics.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

Azure data stack

ADF

Synapse

Fabric

Databricks

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python

PySpark

dbt

Airflow

Prefect

CI/CD

Git

Azure DevOps

Security/compliance

Independent delivery

Tools

Airflow

Azure

Databricks

Git

dbt

Prefect

Azure DevOps

Job description

Harvey Nash is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in the UK to join a hybrid/remote setup on a 3‑month contract with potential extension. You will design, build and improve secure data processing services, maintain pipelines and data models, and ensure data quality and compliance across regulated environments.

The role requires strong SQL, Azure data stack experience (ADF, Synapse, Fabric, Databricks), Python/PySpark, and DBT expertise.