Senior Data Platform Engineer - Azure & Databricks

First Quantum Minerals; London; Hybrid; NOK 1,141,000 - 1,902,000; Full time

Job summary

First Quantum Minerals is seeking a senior data engineering leader to design, develop, and govern data pipelines in Azure. You will collaborate with Data Operations and DevOps to deliver scalable, reliable data services across the enterprise.

You will optimise pipelines, enforce governance, and mentor engineers while driving CI/CD and cloud-native patterns in a complex industrial setting.

Qualifications

• At least six years in data management disciplines—data integration, modelling, optimisation, and data quality.
• Experience leading engineering quality in multi-supplier or managed-service environments is advantageous.
• Mining or heavy industry experience is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Advise architecture enhancements and design engineering patterns for the Data Engineering Service across Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory.
• Define and enforce distinctions between data engineering and integration engineering patterns.
• Set platform optimisation strategies—caching, indexing, partitioning, cost.
• Drive automation across the data engineering lifecycle to reduce repetitive work.
• Collaborate with DBA and DNA CoE to deliver patterns and ensure governance.

Skills

Azure Databricks

SQL

Data Engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Python

Azure Data Factory

Delta Lake

Spark

Unity Catalog

IoT data

Data governance

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Azure Data Factory

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Power BI

Job description

First Quantum Minerals is seeking a senior data engineering leader to design, develop, and govern data pipelines in Azure. You will collaborate with Data Operations and DevOps to deliver scalable, reliable data services across the enterprise.

You will optimise pipelines, enforce governance, and mentor engineers while driving CI/CD and cloud-native patterns in a complex industrial setting.