UBDS Group is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to work on modern data solutions end-to-end, leading technical thinking and making pragmatic design decisions. The ideal candidate will have deep technical capability and a strong consulting mindset, with experience in SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks. They will work closely with clients, designers, analysts, and engineers to shape and deliver production-grade data solutions.
Requirements
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear data, analytical and technical requirements.
- Strong SQL and Python skills for data modelling, transformation, automation and analysis.
- Experience designing data models and architectures across data warehouses, lakehouse and event-driven patterns, or strong semantic modelling in Power BI or other visualisation tools.
- Hands-on experience with modern data engineering frameworks such as Spark / PySpark, Pandas and orchestration tools.
- Experience working with cloud data and AI platforms on AWS or Azure (e.g. Databricks, Redshift, Bedrock, Microsoft Fabric).
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including Git, testing and QA, CI/CD pipelines and modular, maintainable design.
- Strong analytics and statistical reasoning, including metric design, experimentation and interpretation of results.
- Practical AI/ML literacy, including integrating model APIs, evaluation approaches and prompt orchestration.
- Experience applying data governance, security and quality best practices, such as access control, data catalogues, lineage and GDPR awareness.
- Ability to communicate insight through data visualisation and storytelling using tools like Power BI, Tableau or Python-based charts.
Benefits
- Training – All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development
- Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality
- Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance
- Holiday – You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays
- Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice
- Contributed Pension Scheme
- Death in service cover