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Senior Data Engineer Microsoft Azure Data

Summary

Senior Data Engineer designing and building enterprise data pipelines on Microsoft Azure, focusing on Synapse, SQL Server, Data Factory, and DevOps.

Salary: £70,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong experience as a Senior Data Engineer in enterprise data environments.
  • Strategic thinker with experience supporting the delivery of a strategy.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills at all levels of an organisation.
  • Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure data platforms, including Azure Synapse or equivalent data platform, Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, and Azure DevOps.
  • Practical delivery experience using medallion architectures (Bronze / Silver / Gold).
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with DBT.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the strengthening, evolution, and modernisation of our core data platforms.
  • Take joint ownership of existing data pipelines and analytics platforms to ensure they are stable, performant, and trusted by downstream consumers.
  • Support and enhance ingestion and integration pipelines sourcing data from MS Dynamics CRM, MS Dynamics Finance & Operations, SAP SuccessFactors, and bespoke and third-party systems.
  • Develop and maintain the Azure Synapse-based ingestion and staging layer, including Synapse Link integrations and Synapse data pipelines for orchestration and movement.
  • Support the Enterprise Data Warehouse built on Azure SQL Server, including transformations using stored procedures, views, and DBT.
  • Maintain a clear separation of bronze, silver, and gold layers aligned to a medallion architecture.
  • Collaborate with BI and Analytics teams to ensure Gold layer data models support Power BI semantic models, executive dashboards, and operational reporting.
Technologies:
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • CRM
  • Data Warehouse
  • DevOps
  • Fabric
  • Support
  • Power BI
  • SAP
  • SQL
  • Serverless
  • Spark
  • dbt
  • Cloud
  • AI

More:

We are a thriving business transitioning from a traditional Azure Synapse-centric estate toward a Microsoft Fabric and OneLake-based architecture. We are embracing modern engineering patterns such as serverless storage, medallion design, Spark-based transformations, DBT-driven analytics engineering, and fully automated CI/CD. This is a permanent Senior Data Engineer role based in London or Glasgow, with one day a week in the office. Both offices have large data teams, and the salary range is £80,000 to £100,000.

last updated 32 week of 2026