Senior Data Engineer - Remote, Own Architecture & Scale-Up Impact

Burns Sheehan Limited; Manchester; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Income protection

Home office setup

Dental cover (optional)

Optical cover

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Limited is hiring a Senior Data Engineer for a fully remote UK role within a high-growth tech scale-up. You will design, build and scale data infrastructure, owning end-to-end data projects from ingestion to analytics, while shaping data platform architecture and standards.

You’ll collaborate across Product, Engineering and Analytics to solve complex challenges, advance data quality, and drive lower-latency analytics.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in Data Engineering, ideally within a product-led start-up or scale-up.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills, alongside strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with modern data technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster/Airflow and AWS, or similar.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, scalable pipelines and production-grade engineering practices.
• A track record of independently owning and delivering complex technical projects.
• Someone who enjoys solving problems, working with autonomy and thriving in a fast-moving environment.
• Fully remote UK working, with flexible working arrangements and a fully supported home office setup.
• Private healthcare with zero excess, including optical cover and optional dental cover.
• Income protection to provide additional financial security.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt and AWS.
• Taking end-to-end ownership of data engineering projects, from ingestion and transformation through to analytics.
• Developing and optimising data models to support business and product decision-making.
• Improving data quality, monitoring, alerting and testing across the platform.
• Building out staging and testing environments and contributing to CDC and lower-latency data initiatives.
• Working closely with Product, Engineering and Analytics teams to solve complex data challenges.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Software engineering fundamentals

Problem solving

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

AWS

Job description

Burns Sheehan Limited is hiring a Senior Data Engineer for a fully remote UK role within a high-growth tech scale-up. You will design, build and scale data infrastructure, owning end-to-end data projects from ingestion to analytics, while shaping data platform architecture and standards.

You’ll collaborate across Product, Engineering and Analytics to solve complex challenges, advance data quality, and drive lower-latency analytics.