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Senior Cloud Data Engineer | Azure Databricks (Leeds)

Databricks Data Engineer - Contract

Day Rate: £450 - £550 P/ day
Location: Hybrid (Remote / 2 Days a week in London)
Start: Immediate Start
Note: Capital Markets, or at least Banking experience is a MUST!

Key expertise and experience we're looking for:

Data Engineering in Databricks -
Spark programming with Scala, Python, SQL
Ideally experience with Delta Lake
Databricks workflows, jobs, etc.
Familiarity with Azure Data Lake: experience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT frameworks
Data Governance experience - Metadata, Data Quality, Lineage, Data Access Models
Good understanding of Data Modelling concepts, Data Products and Data Domains
Unity Catalog experience is a key differentiator - if not then experience with a similar Catalog/Data Governance Management component
MS Purview (Metadata and Data Quality tool) experience is a bonus - experience in similar tools is valuable (Collibra, Informatica Data Quality/MDM/Axon etc.)
Data Architecture experience is a bonus
Python, Scala, Databricks Spark and Pyspark with Data Engineering skills
Ownership and ability to drive implementation / solution design

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