Senior Data Engineer | Azure | Fully Remote | Up to £85k + Excellent Benefits

Senior Data Engineer Fully Remote Up to £85,000 + Excellent Benefits Are you a Senior Data Engineer looking for an opportunity to influence data architecture, drive technical decisions and build scalable cloud-native solutions? We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join a growing technology business investing heavily in its Azure data platform. This role offers the chance to work on complex, business-critical data products, collaborate with high-performing engineering teams and help shape the future direction of a modern data ecosystem. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and optimising data pipelines that power analytics, machine learning and customer-facing products. This is an opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer who wants genuine ownership, autonomy and the ability to influence strategic technical decisions. The Role As a Senior Data Engineer, you will: - Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines within Azure. - Build and enhance metadata-driven frameworks to support rapid onboarding of new data sources. - Develop production-grade solutions using Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions (Python), Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Data Lake Storage. - Implement security best practices including RBAC, encryption and data governance controls. - Work closely with Product, Engineering and Data Science teams to deliver high-quality data solutions. - Contribute to platform modernisation, cloud transformation and future architectural decisions. - Support the delivery of trusted, reliable and scalable data products across the organisation. Required Experience - Strong experience building and maintaining Azure-based data platforms. - Advanced Python skills for data engineering. - Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Managed Instance and ADLS. - Strong understanding of Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver and Gold). - Experience with metadata-driven ETL frameworks. - Excellent SQL skills. - Knowledge of Git, CI/CD and DataOps best practices. - Understanding of data security, governance and compliance requirements. Desirable Experience - Data quality testing frameworks. - API development experience. - C# development background. - Experience working with operational, event-driven or risk-related datasets. What's On Offer? - Salary up to £85,000 - Fully remote working - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - Employer pension contribution (4% matched) - Private AXA healthcare - 24/7 Virtual GP access - Dental cashback up to £400 per year - Optical cashback up to £200 per year - Life assurance up to 4x salary - Employee Assistance Programme - Financial wellbeing support and coaching - Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption policies - Fertility and IVF support - Flexible working culture - Professional memberships and subscriptions paid - Cycle to Work scheme - £1,500 referral scheme Why Apply? This is more than another data engineering position. You'll join a business entering an exciting growth phase, working with a modern Azure stack while helping shape the future of a strategic data platform. For a Senior Data Engineer looking for impact, autonomy and long-term progression, this is an opportunity to make a genuine difference whilst working fully remotely. If this sounds like something up your street get in touch with me, Kumbirai Mafini. kumbirai.mafini@gmail.com