Senior Data Engineer – Databricks – AWS – London (Hybrid)
I’m working with a client that is growing fast within analytics and data company operating across the sports, media and entertainment sector. They’re expanding their data engineering capability as demand continues to scale. With data at the core of how the business drives performance, commercial insight and strategic decision‑making, this is an opportunity to join a company investing heavily in modern, cloud‑native data architecture.
This is an opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer who wants to lead on Databricks architecture, influence technical direction and mentor others, while remaining hands‑on with complex, large‑scale data systems.
The Role
- Architect and evolve robust, scalable data infrastructure and workflows
- Lead technical design decisions and contribute to long‑term platform strategy
- Drive operational excellence across performance, security, governance and cost optimisation
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the team
- Champion modern architectural patterns including event‑driven, streaming and distributed systems
Key Experience
- Strong expertise in distributed data architectures (lambda/kappa)
- Expert‑level data modelling (star/snowflake schemas, SCD Types 1–3, fact optimisation)
- Deep understanding of medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) lakehouse and data mesh principles
- Proven experience defining data contracts, cataloguing standards, and observability practices
- Strong performance tuning and cost optimisation experience in cloud data warehouses
- Hands‑on experience with Snowflake, dbt, S3, Athena
- Deep expertise across the AWS data engineering stack
- Comfortable working in Agile environments (Jira, Confluence)
- Leadership mindset with the ability to influence, mentor and set best practice
What’s on Offer
- Hybrid working (2 days per week in London)
- Join a scaling, well‑funded business with strong technical ambition
- High‑impact work on modern data platforms
- Opportunity to influence architecture, standards and team direction