Senior Data Platform Engineer & Technical Leader

Opencast | B Corp™; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

7% employer pension contribution

Share options

Discretionary bonus

25 days’ holiday

Life happens days (3 annually)

Wellbeing support

Ongoing professional development

Volunteering opportunities

Supportive team

Job summary

Opencast seeks a data engineering lead to help shape its growing capability. You will mentor teams, recruit talent and provide technical leadership while delivering across integration, migration and platform design using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and modern data technologies.

You will work with architects, analysts and client teams to solve complex challenges, influence direction and raise engineering standards across the lifecycle, including governance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve difficult problems.
• Mentor and recruit within growing data engineering capability.
• Build reliable, scalable data platforms and services.

Responsibilities

• Guide direction of data engineering capability through mentoring and recruitment.
• Deliver client work across integration, migration, modelling and platform design.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts and engineers to set engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

Complex engineering problems

Mentoring

Client-facing advisory

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Emerging technologies

Collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Data platforms

Job description

Opencast seeks a data engineering lead to help shape its growing capability. You will mentor teams, recruit talent and provide technical leadership while delivering across integration, migration and platform design using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and modern data technologies.

You will work with architects, analysts and client teams to solve complex challenges, influence direction and raise engineering standards across the lifecycle, including governance and reliability.