Senior Data Engineer
Summary
Senior Data Engineer joining a growing Manchester business to build a greenfield modern data platform end to end — data ingestion, storage, modelling and quality across SQL/relational and NoSQL/time-series stores, including lakes, lakehouses or warehouses. Sets engineering standards and shapes a new data function oriented toward analytics and AI. Hybrid across 2 sites.
Maxwell Bond are partnering with a growing Manchester business looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in building and shaping its data capabilities.
With significant investment in technology and a growing focus on data-led decision-making, the organisation is developing a new data platform to support its continued growth, improve business intelligence and lay the foundations for future analytics and AI applications.
This is an opportunity to join a growing technology function at an exciting stage, taking ownership of a greenfield data platform, influencing technical decisions and helping establish the standards and foundations for a new data team.
What you'll do as a Senior Data Engineer:
- Design and build a modern data platform, combing high volume data into a well-structured environment.
- Lead data ingestion, storage and modelling across databases, looking at accessibility and fit for operational use.
- Establish data quality and retention strategies, building a scalable foundation.
- Work with CTO and wider technology team to shape platform decisions, evaluate technologies and prioritise improvements.
- Set engineering standards and best practices, providing technical guidance and helping develop the wider data function.
What we're looking for:
- Commercial Data Engineering experience, ability to combine hands-on delivery with architectural input.
- Strong SQL skills, experience across relational databases, and an understanding of NoSQL, time-series data and database performance.
- Experience building modern data platforms, including data lakes, lakehouses or warehouses.
- Strong knowledge of data ingestion, transformation and modelling.
- A pragmatic, collaborative approach to building scalable data solutions, with an understanding of data quality, governance and preparing data for analytics, machine learning and AI.
- Background in energy or regulated environments is beneficial, but not required.
What you'll get as a Senior Data Engineer:
- Up to 10% performance-related annual bonus.
- Hybrid working across 2 sites
- Flexi time
- The opportunity to shape a new data function and have a genuine influence over the organisation's technology direction.
If you're a Senior Data Engineer looking for an opportunity to take ownership, influence technical direction and build something that will have a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you !