Senior Databricks Data Engineer & Solutions Leader

Talan Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Life cover

Cycle to work scheme

Pension scheme with employer contrib.

Employee assistance programme

Udemy for Business learning

Job summary

Talan Data x AI is a leading data management and analytics consultancy seeking a Senior Data Engineering Consultant (Databricks) to join on client-site delivery in London. You will design and optimise data pipelines with PySpark in Databricks, build dashboards in Power BI, and lead technical and project teams while engaging stakeholders.

The role requires multi-disciplinary data expertise, strong communication, and a proactive, adaptable mindset, with willingness to travel.

Qualifications

• Multiskilled experience across data management, data engineering, warehousing, modelling, quality, integration, analytics, visualization, data science and BI.
• Databricks with PySpark; build and optimise data pipelines in Databricks environments.
• Proven experience designing dashboards/reports with Power BI.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; ability to write complex queries.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) and Databricks integrations.
• Experience with data ingestion, transformation and quality control processes.
• Excellent problem solving and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading technical/project teams.
• Awareness of industry standards, regulations, and developments.
• End-to-end project delivery with various development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, DevOps).
• DevOps and infrastructure deployments (Azure and Databricks).
• Ideally SAS and relational data warehousing concepts; enterprise ETL tools like Informatica, Talend, Datastage or Alteryx.
• Cross and multi-platform experience; team building and leadership.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Azure

AWS

GCP

Snowflake

Data Modeling

Data Integration

Tools

Informatica

Talend

Datastage

Alteryx

Job description

Talan Data x AI is a leading data management and analytics consultancy seeking a Senior Data Engineering Consultant (Databricks) to join on client-site delivery in London. You will design and optimise data pipelines with PySpark in Databricks, build dashboards in Power BI, and lead technical and project teams while engaging stakeholders.

The role requires multi-disciplinary data expertise, strong communication, and a proactive, adaptable mindset, with willingness to travel.