Senior Data Engineer

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