Senior Data Platform & AI Architect

OrderYOYO; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

OrderYOYO is seeking a Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer to own the modern data platform, migrating to a governed Microsoft Fabric layer, and to lead data engineering with AI-enabled capabilities. You will mentor engineers, design semantic models, and ensure reliable data pipelines across CRM and analytics reporting.

The role focuses on data governance, scalable architecture, and senior leadership for data delivery during a critical growth phase.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in modern data warehousing, analytics engineering or data platform engineering in SaaS/fintech/e‑commerce roles.
• Strong Fabric capability, or deep Azure Synapse/Databricks with ability to specialise quickly.
• Expert SQL/T-SQL with Python or PySpark and maintainable ELT/ETL pipelines.
• Strong Power BI and DAX experience, including semantic modelling and governance.
• Experience leading legacy-to-modern data platform migrations with parity testing.
• Production data systems operations experience: monitoring, alerting, data quality checks and runbooks.
• Experience with Git-based data engineering workflows and notebooks release discipline.
• Practical AI/automation experience to improve data engineering, reporting and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead Microsoft Fabric architecture across lakehouse, warehouse, notebooks and production governance.
• Drive migration from legacy reporting to a governed Fabric semantic layer with testing and sign-off.
• Own and improve data pipelines across APIs, files, events and stores with robust orchestration and data quality checks.
• Apply AI/automation to accelerate ETL/ELT development, mapping, testing and monitoring.
• Design high-quality Power BI semantic models and reusable metrics for leadership and finance reporting.
• Support CRM and operational data integrations including outbound data feeds and mapping.
• Create reliable ingestion and modelling patterns for acquired businesses for repeatable integrations.
• Set data-engineering standards, review code, manage releases and governance.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse

Databricks

SQL/T-SQL

Python

Power BI

DAX

ETL/ELT pipelines

Git workflows

AI integration

Tools

Git

Jupyter

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

OrderYOYO is seeking a Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer to own the modern data platform, migrating to a governed Microsoft Fabric layer, and to lead data engineering with AI-enabled capabilities. You will mentor engineers, design semantic models, and ensure reliable data pipelines across CRM and analytics reporting.

The role focuses on data governance, scalable architecture, and senior leadership for data delivery during a critical growth phase.