Senior Data Engineer | contract

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Rate: £600 per day (outside IR35)

Length: 6 months initially

Location: 2-3 days per week in Liverpool

Start date: ASAP

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in modernising a legacy Business Objects data warehouse, migrating to a modern Azure and Databricks platform. This is an opportunity to take ownership across discovery, build and deployment, helping shape a new cloud-based data environment with real impact across the business.

If you enjoy solving complex data challenges, designing robust pipelines and working closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, this role offers the autonomy and visibility to do just that.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery activities to understand the current Business Objects data warehouse, dependencies, data flows and reporting needs
• Design and build modern data pipelines and data models on Azure and Databricks to support analytics and downstream consumption
• Migrate and re-platform data from legacy systems into the new cloud environment, ensuring accuracy, performance and reliability
• Collaborate with stakeholders to capture requirements and translate them into practical, scalable engineering solutions
• Drive best practice across data engineering, including quality, monitoring, performance optimisation and deployment processes
• Support deployment activities, release planning and operational readiness as the new platform goes live

Person Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer delivering data warehouse modernisation or migration projects
• Strong SQL expertise (advanced querying, optimisation, data modelling concepts)
• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Azure data services in a production environment
• Experience building end-to-end solutions: discovery, design, build, test and deploy
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
• A pragmatic approach to problem-solving with a focus on delivering reliable, maintainable solutions

INext steps:

If you’re a Senior Data Engineer ready to lead a move to Databricks on Azure and want a role where your work will shape a modern data platform, we’d like to hear from you.

Shortlisting will take place on the 7th, 8th and 9th April with a quick turnaround expected for interviews and start.