FGH (Freemans Grattan Holdings)
Senior Data Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer (Fabric)
FGH Business Centre
66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ
Hybrid flexibility: 2 office days per week
About The Role
At FGH, data is not a reporting afterthought - it is a strategic enabler for growth, efficiency, and AI-driven decision-making. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in transforming how data is designed, delivered, and consumed across a digital retail organisation, shaping and operationalising our modern data and AI platform, working at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and innovation.
This role offers the opportunity to build at scale, influence platform direction, and directly enable advanced analytics and AI use cases across the business.
You’ll work closely with our Data Architect, BI teams, and cross-functional data product owners to build a next-generation data platform using Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse architecture.
Accountabilities
Solution Delivery
- Working with the FGH business to design & build end-to-end ETL data solutions using Microsoft Fabric as well as real-time data processing.
- Designing and building data pipelines using Data Flows (Gen2) and Fabric Notebooks (Spark SQL & Python) to ingest and transform data from on-prem and third-party data solutions.
- Design and develop Data Lakehouse’s using Medallion architecture standards.
- Implementing Semantic Layers using Star Schema Modelling (Kimbal) & DAX in collaboration with the BI Team/Lead.
- Deployment of versioned artifacts using DevOps CI/CD.
- Supporting data product teams with reusable components and infrastructure.
- Optimising data storage and retrieval for analytics, AI, and operational use cases.
Data Governance & Compliance
- Embedding data quality, lineage, and observability into all pipelines.
- Supporting metadata management and data cataloguing initiatives.
- Ensuring compliance with data protection standards (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001).
- Collaborating with InfoSec and Risk teams to implement secure data handling practices.
Data Integration & Management
- Integrating data from internal and third-party sources (e.g., CRM, ERP, APIs).
- Ensuring consistency, interoperability, and performance across data flows.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting pipeline health and data reliability.
- Supporting real-time and batch processing environments.
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Best Practice Expectations
- Applying engineering principles that support modularity, scalability, and resilience.
- Automating deployment, testing, and monitoring of data pipelines.
- Contributing to platform sustainability and energy efficiency.
- Aligning engineering practices with enterprise architecture and business goals.
Relationship Management
- Collaborating with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Engaging with platform teams to ensure infrastructure readiness.
- Supporting data product teams with technical enablement and onboarding.
- Evaluating and managing third-party data tools and services.
Personal & Professional Development
- Staying current with emerging data engineering tools and cloud services.
- Pursuing relevant certifications and continuous learning (Fabric Data Engineer -DP-700).
- Contributing to knowledge sharing and mentoring within the data community.
- Promoting a culture of data reliability, automation, and innovation.
Essential
ABOUT YOU
- Able to commute to Bradford City Centre
- A relevant computer Degree or Microsoft Certified, e.g. DP-700: Designing and Implementing a Data Analytics Solution Using Microsoft Fabric
- Evidence of formal training, certification or several years of experience in SQL, Python, or Spark. Familiarity with data mapping frameworks.
Engineering & Technical Skills
- Data Pipeline Development: Proven experience designing and building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Data Platform: Direct experience working with the Microsoft Fabric Platform (Data flow Gen2, Notebooks & Sematic Models) and storage solutions (e.g., Data Lake, Delta Lake).
- Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation, transformation, and automation; familiarity with Spark-SQL
- Data Integration: Experience integrating structured and unstructured data from diverse sources including APIs, flat files, databases, and third-party platforms (e.g., CRM, ERP).
- Data Observability & Quality: Ability to implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines.
- Ability to translate architectural designs into operational data solutions.
ABOUT US: FGH DIGITAL
For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We’ve accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer.
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With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone.
Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group one of the world’s largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.
What We Offer You
FLEXIBILITY
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working options to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance. Our full-time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in-person teamwork and the flexibility to work from home.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role.
We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step.
We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress. Our inspired leadership programme is aimed at equipping our future leaders to coach, develop, manage change and maintain situational awareness.
INCLUSIVITY
As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long-standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance.
Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.
Benefits
We firmly believe that we should reward our brilliant people with extensive benefits to help them stay healthy, relax and re-energise, have fun, manage the day-to-day and plan for the future. Here are just some of our great benefits:
- Competitive salaries and annual bonus scheme
- 37 days holiday
- Healthcare cash plan
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Paid paternity and maternity leave
- Incredible staff discounts
- Subsidised Canteen
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