Data Engineer- Databricks: SQL/Python/PySpark

Company: Careerwise
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Location: London
Job Description:

Data Engineer- Databricks/SQL/Python/PySpark

Location: London (Hybrid: 3 days travel to the office in Central London per week + 2 days’ work from Home)

Salary- up to £56K base + pension + healthcare.

Data Engineer required for one of our global clients in the UK for their BI & Analytics Team. You will be working with the leading tools and platforms such as Power Platform, Databricks, ADF.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Data Pipeline development/orchestration/maintenance
  • Creating robust, fit-for-purpose data modelling solutions to address multiple business cases
  • Root cause analysis and pro-active investigation to identify potential issues and optimize ETL pipelines, notify end-users and propose adequate solutions
  • Prepare documentation for further reference

Software Knowledge

  • Demonstratable delivery experience using Azure Databricks
  • Solid delivery experience using ADF, ADLS Gen2, and the Azure Cloud Ecosystem
  • Solid SQL skills – Querying syntax, DDL, and DML statements
  • Solid Python skills – able to use the Python programming concepts in Databricks Notebooks for data loading, transformation, and exploration, including familiarity with Pandas
  • Strong understanding of core Databricks and Spark concepts such as Delta Live Tables, Delta Sharing, Medallion Architecture, Dataframes, Workflows, Unity Catalogue, Delta Live Tables, and UDF’s
  • Understands the key principles of Data Warehouse design, including Star Schema, F&D design, Dimension and Fact loading patterns, SCD, and CDC concepts
  • Experience with the use of MS DevOps for Scrum management and with Repos and use of CI/CD Pipelines between Azure and DevOps
  • Proven track record in a data engineering role where the focus has been on developing data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakehouses, and similar data repositories for BI, Reporting and Analytics use

Nice to have

  • Any relevant Azure certifications/exams such as: AZ-900, DP-900, DP-203, or DP-500
  • Any relevant Databricks certifications: Lakehouse Data Engineer Associate: Lakehouse Data Engineer Professional

Posted: March 27th, 2026