Senior Data Engineer & Technical Consultant — Client-Facing

Opencast | B Corp™; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension (7%)

Share options

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday

Life happens days

Wellbeing support

Professional development

Volunteering opportunities

Supportive team

Job summary

Opencast is building data engineering capabilities that enable reliable, scalable foundations for better decision making and services.

You’ll tackle integration, migration, modelling and platform design with Microsoft Fabric and Azure, shaping engineering practice and leadership as our capability grows. Expect broad client work, mentoring, and setting standards across delivery and capability.

Qualifications

• Navigate ambiguity and solve difficult problems to help clients decide confidently.
• Combine technical expertise with curiosity, pragmatism and collaboration.
• Influence technical direction through evidence and constructive challenge.
• Work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand problems.
• Balance engineering quality, governance, security and reliability with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead across integration, migration, modelling and platform design for data projects.
• Mentor and recruit as the data engineering capability grows.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, software engineers and client teams.
• Define engineering standards and best practices.
• Build lakehouse/warehouse platforms using Microsoft Fabric and Azure.

Skills

Navigate ambiguity

Problem solving

Collaborative mindset

Client relationships

Technical advisory

Mentoring others

Emerging technologies

Delivery focus

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Job description

Opencast is building data engineering capabilities that enable reliable, scalable foundations for better decision making and services.

You’ll tackle integration, migration, modelling and platform design with Microsoft Fabric and Azure, shaping engineering practice and leadership as our capability grows. Expect broad client work, mentoring, and setting standards across delivery and capability.