Senior Data Engineer - Pipelines, Cloud & Quality

Platform Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Platform Recruitment partners with a boutique technical consultancy in the UK to hire a senior data engineer in Manchester. This hands-on role spans from proof of concept to production data systems with direct client engagement and collaboration in a high-depth, low-ego team.

You will design and build data‑intensive pipelines using Python and SQL, with Spark or Databricks, on AWS/Azure/GCP. Emphasis on data quality and reliability; a 2:1 from a Russell Group university is expected, with a

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and building data-intensive applications and pipelines.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills with solid software engineering fundamentals across testing, code quality and maintainability.
• Experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark or Databricks.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Focus on data quality and reliability with testing, troubleshooting and improvement mindset.
• 2:1 from Russell Group university; Masters/PhD is a strong bonus.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on senior role spanning proof of concept to fully engineered production data systems.
• Direct client engagement within a collaborative, high-depth engineering team.
• Contribute to design, development and maintainability of data pipelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

Software engineering

Testing

Code quality

Distributed computing

Spark

Databricks

Airflow

Education

2:1 from Russell Group university in CS/Math/Engineering/Physics

Masters or PhD is a bonus

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

Airflow

Job description

Platform Recruitment partners with a boutique technical consultancy in the UK to hire a senior data engineer in Manchester. This hands-on role spans from proof of concept to production data systems with direct client engagement and collaboration in a high-depth, low-ego team.

You will design and build data‑intensive pipelines using Python and SQL, with Spark or Databricks, on AWS/Azure/GCP. Emphasis on data quality and reliability; a 2:1 from a Russell Group university is expected, with a