Data Engineer

Job Description

Data Engineer / Junior  - Mid Level / £40,000 - £55,000 / Remote (UK) / 6-month FTC

We’re recruiting a Junior  - Mid level Data Engineer to join a cloud-first data team working on a major migration programme. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to grow their data engineering skills while helping move legacy ETL into a modern Databricks + Azure platform.

Why this role?

You’ll play a visible part in a large migration project  - re-platforming and modernising pipelines, improving data quality, and helping the team adopt CI/CD for data workloads. Great mentoring and exposure to end-to-end pipelines.

Day-to-day

• Build, run and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines on Databricks / Azure.
• Implement data transformations, data quality checks and monitoring.
• Support migration of legacy jobs into Databricks notebooks / jobs.
• Work within CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts and product owners to deliver features.

Must-haves

• 1 - 4 years’ data engineering / analytics engineering experience.
• Experience with Databricks and Azure (Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL).
• Strong SQL + Python.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts (pipelines, automation).

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of data modelling and performance tuning.

Salary: £40,000  - £55,000 DOE
Location: Fully remote (UK-based)