Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer / Architect

Job summary

The Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer / Architect delivers a hands-on uplift of an established enterprise data platform in the financial services domain. The role assesses and migrates data assets, optimises ETL/ELT pipelines, builds reusable data products and medallion architecture, and supports analytics with Power BI. It also covers data quality, governance, documentation, and stakeholder engagement using Azure services including Data Factory, Azure SQL, Synapse Analytics, and Data Lake Storage.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Azure data platform solutions.
• Strong experience in data warehousing, data migration, ETL/ELT, data quality, reconciliation, and governance.
• Experience with Power BI, semantic models, tabular modelling, DAX, enterprise reporting, and performance optimisation.
• Advanced SQL and T-SQL development, including stored procedures.
• Experience with data modelling, performance tuning, APIs, integrations, and Git source control.

Responsibilities

• Assess and uplift Azure data platform components.
• Analyse and document dependencies across ingestion pipelines, business rules, and semantic models.
• Migrate and optimise ETL/ELT processes.
• Develop Azure data engineering solutions.
• Design and deliver reusable data products.
• Implement and support medallion architecture patterns.
• Develop and optimise Azure SQL database objects and transformation logic.
• Support enterprise reporting and analytics with Power BI.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance.
• Prepare technical documentation and operational runbooks, and support knowledge transfer.
• Contribute to governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

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Contract length

Relocation