iO Associates
Senior Data Engineer
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The Role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will:
- Design scalable data products within a cross-functional product team
- Act as a senior technical partner to product managers and lead data engineers
- Own complex, business-critical data products end-to-end
- Build and maintain high-quality data pipelines using Databricks & Spark
- Convert requirements into clear technical designs and conceptual data models
- Ingest large, complex datasets and automate manual processes
- Improve data quality, observability, reliability, and delivery performance
- Champion a build-once-consume-many culture across the platform
- Collaborate with stakeholders to solve data-related engineering challenges
- Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and platform evolution
- Mentor other engineers and raise the overall engineering bar
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Tech Environment
My client is actively modernising their platform, moving away from legacy IaaS solutions and building a Databricks-first Lakehouse. Spark, Delta Lake, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices are central to how they design and scale data products.
What You'll Need
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks & Spark in production
- 5+ years in data engineering or software engineering with a strong data focus
- Experience building production-grade pipelines on Azure
- Strong SQL and experience with analytical data models / data warehousing
- Proficiency in Python (Scala a bonus)
- Solid engineering discipline: CI/CD, testing, Git, DevOps for data
- Experience delivering enterprise-grade data products used by multiple teams
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with Azure Synapse (dedicated/serverless SQL pools)
- Agile mindset; experience working in Scrum teams
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Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or container orchestration
Contract Details
- Start: ASAP
- Location: London (with remote flexibility)
- Length: 6 months (likely extension)
- Rate: Competitive, depending on experience
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