Staff Data Engineer: Azure & Databricks Platform Lead

Severn Trent; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual bonus up to £2,225

Pension scheme

Sharesave

Training and development

EV scheme

Volunteering days

Job summary

Severn Trent is seeking a Staff Data Engineer based at our Coventry head office with a strong background in Azure data platforms. You will lead hands‑on data engineering design, ensure alignment with standards, and govern delivery‑level designs across multiple data streams.

You will coach engineers in best‑practice patterns for ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving, collaborating across data trains and hubs to reduce risk and tech debt as we scale.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and reviewing low‑level designs for modern data platforms in Azure.

Responsibilities

• Provide early delivery design assurance, translating HLDs into delivery‑ready LLDs.

Skills

SQL

Data architecture

Communication

Design assurance

Leadership

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

Azure Synapse

Informatica

Azure SQL

Event Hub

Key Vault

Job description

Severn Trent is seeking a Staff Data Engineer based at our Coventry head office with a strong background in Azure data platforms. You will lead hands‑on data engineering design, ensure alignment with standards, and govern delivery‑level designs across multiple data streams.

You will coach engineers in best‑practice patterns for ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving, collaborating across data trains and hubs to reduce risk and tech debt as we scale.