Senior Data Engineer - Own Core Data Warehouse & Pipelines

Factorial; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse, build and optimize BigQuery pipelines, and ensure trusted data powers finance, forecasting and operations. You will define data standards, improve reliability and drive data architecture initiatives across cross‑functional teams.

You will work hands‑on with SQL, Python and modern transformation tools, collaborating with Finance, Operations and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions and robust reporting environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial Data Engineering experience.
• Expert SQL skills and strong Python development experience.
• Hands-on BigQuery experience or equivalent cloud data warehouse technologies.
• Experience with dbt, Dataform or similar transformation frameworks.
• Experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Experience implementing monitoring, testing and alerting for data systems.
• Strong understanding of data quality, governance and reliability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience supporting finance, ERP or operational reporting environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the performance, reliability, security and ongoing development of DFYNE’s BigQuery data warehouse and associated data pipelines.
• Design, build and maintain scalable ingestion and transformation processes.
• Implement data quality monitoring, validation and automated alerting.
• Define data contracts with business stakeholders and system owners.
• Improve reliability, accuracy and freshness of business‑critical data.
• Lead investigation and resolution of data incidents, ensuring root causes are identified and permanently addressed.
• Support ERP, finance, forecasting and operational reporting requirements.
• Build and maintain integrations for fulfilment and logistics platforms.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues and pipeline failures.
• Contribute to data architecture, governance and engineering standards.
• Collaborate closely with Finance, Operations and Engineering teams.
• Support reporting, analytics and business intelligence initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement across DFYNE’s data platform.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Data warehouse

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Reporting

Business analytics

Cloud architectures

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Dataform

Terraform

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse, build and optimize BigQuery pipelines, and ensure trusted data powers finance, forecasting and operations. You will define data standards, improve reliability and drive data architecture initiatives across cross‑functional teams.

You will work hands‑on with SQL, Python and modern transformation tools, collaborating with Finance, Operations and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions and robust reporting environments.