Senior Data Engineer

Maxwell Bond are partnering with a growing Manchester business looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in building and shaping its data capabilities.

With significant investment in technology and a growing focus on data-led decision-making, the organisation is developing a new data platform to support its continued growth, improve business intelligence and lay the foundations for future analytics and AI applications.

This is an opportunity to join a growing technology function at an exciting stage, taking ownership of a greenfield data platform, influencing technical decisions and helping establish the standards and foundations for a new data team.

What you'll do as a Senior Data Engineer:

• Design and build a modern data platform, combing high volume data into a well-structured environment.
• Lead data ingestion, storage and modelling across databases, looking at accessibility and fit for operational use.
• Establish data quality and retention strategies, building a scalable foundation.
• Work with CTO and wider technology team to shape platform decisions, evaluate technologies and prioritise improvements.
• Set engineering standards and best practices, providing technical guidance and helping develop the wider data function.

What we're looking for:

• Commercial Data Engineering experience, ability to combine hands-on delivery with architectural input.
• Strong SQL skills, experience across relational databases, and an understanding of NoSQL, time-series data and database performance.
• Experience building modern data platforms, including data lakes, lakehouses or warehouses.
• Strong knowledge of data ingestion, transformation and modelling.
• A pragmatic, collaborative approach to building scalable data solutions, with an understanding of data quality, governance and preparing data for analytics, machine learning and AI.
• Background in energy or regulated environments is beneficial, but not required.

What you'll get as a Senior Data Engineer:

• Up to 10% performance-related annual bonus.
• Hybrid working across 2 sites
• Flexi time
• The opportunity to shape a new data function and have a genuine influence over the organisation's technology direction.

If you're a Senior Data Engineer looking for an opportunity to take ownership, influence technical direction and build something that will have a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you !