Activate Group Limited

Senior Data Engineer

Activate Group Limited

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £45,000 - £60,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AzureCloudSQL

About the role

  • Lead the design, architecture and build of a new enterprise data warehouse on Microsoft Fabric.
  • Develop robust data pipelines, orchestration processes and monitoring frameworks using Fabric components (Data Factory, Data Engineering, Lakehouse).
  • Create scalable and high-quality data models to support analytics, Power BI reporting and self-service data consumption.
  • Establish and enforce data governance, documentation and best practices across the data ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to junior team members where required.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer, BI/Data Warehouse Engineer, or similar.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric and related services.
  • End-to-end DWH development experience, from ingestion to modelling and consumption.
  • Strong background in data modelling, including star schema, dimensional modelling and semantic modelling.
  • Experience with orchestration, monitoring and optimisation of data pipelines.
  • Proficiency in SQL and strong understanding of database principles.
  • Ability to design scalable data architectures aligned to business needs.
  • Experience with Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, or equivalent cloud platforms (desirable).
  • Knowledge of data governance and security frameworks (desirable).
  • Exposure to DevOps/DataOps practices (e.g., CI/CD, Git, environments, testing) (desirable).
  • Experience supporting self-serve analytics programmes (desirable).
Benefits
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
  • Life assurance: three times basic salary
  • Free breakfasts and fruit
  • Birthday surprise for everybody!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data engineeringdata warehousingdata modellingSQLorchestrationmonitoringdata governanceDevOpsDataOpsdata architecture
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunication