Lead Data Engineer | Databricks
Summary
Hands-on Lead Data Engineer contract (3 months, extendable) building a modern Databricks data platform for a major UK organisation in Huddersfield — designing pipelines and bronze/silver/gold layers, leading existing data engineers, and transitioning the platform to sustainable BAU. Core tech: Databricks, SQL, production data pipelines.
Lead Data Engineer - Databricks | Contract
Huddersfield - 4 days onsite
c£550 per day - Outside IR353
3 month initial contract - potential extension to 6 months
We re supporting a major UK organisation through a significant transformation of its data estate and are looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to provide immediate technical leadership and hands-on delivery.
This is a proper hands-on engineering role. We need someone who can hit the ground running, take ownership and help establish a modern Databricks data platform without needing significant support from the existing team.
What you'll be doing:
- Hands-on Data Engineering within Databricks
- Designing and building robust data pipelines
- Supporting the development of bronze, silver and gold data layers
- Taking ownership of engineering standards and delivery
- Leading and supporting existing Data Engineers
- Prioritising and allocating engineering work
- Working closely with Data & Enterprise Architecture
- Helping create trusted, reusable data models and single sources of truth
- Supporting knowledge transfer from the existing Databricks Solution Architect
- Helping transition the platform into a sustainable BAU engineering capability
What we re looking for:
- Strong hands-on Databricks experience
- Excellent SQL and Data Engineering fundamentals
- Proven experience designing and building production data pipelines
- Experience working within complex enterprise data environments
- Previous technical leadership/people management experience
- Able to operate independently and make an impact from day one
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
- Pragmatic, proactive and comfortable working in a fast-moving transformation environment
There's a substantial pipeline of data transformation ahead, so this is a great contract for someone who enjoys getting stuck into an evolving environment and helping shape how things are built.
3 months initially, with potential to extend to 6 months.
Available soon and interested? Get in touch.