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Data Engineer

Recruit with Purpose
London
4 days ago
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Are you a Data Engineer who is looking for a more purposeful career?


Feel like your current role, limits you to what you can achieve and that there isn’t any more room to grow?


If the answer is yes, I could have just the role for you.


Recruit with Purpose are supporting one the UK’s largest and leading housing associations to help them find a Data Engineer to join their growing team.


This organisation is at the forefront for how housing associations modernise and utilise their data. Constantly evolving and leading the way within the sector. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior / lead data engineer to come in and put their stamp on how this organisation utilises its data.


In this role, you’ll be at the heart of designing, building, and maintaining trusted, reusable data products that create better decision-making and deeper insights across the organisation. You'll help bring their data strategy to life, opening up access, enhancing quality, strengthening governance, and guiding teams to make the most of the data at their fingertips.


In this role you will shape how this organisation directly improves the lives of its customers, with the way in which they modernise the use of their data.


Overview of responsibilities in the role:

  • Design and maintain scalable, high-performance data pipelines using Azure Data Platform tools such as Databricks (PySpark), Data Factory, and Data Lake Gen2.
  • Develop curated data layers (bronze, silver, gold) optimised for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML, ensuring they meet performance, governance, and reuse standards.
  • Translate business needs into defined data products by collaborating with product owners, analysts, and stakeholders defining metrics, rules, and transformations.
  • Work with engineers and architects to integrate data from internal systems (e.g. NEC, CRM, finance, asset management) and external APIs.
  • Implement data quality checks, lineage tracking, monitoring, and alerts to ensure data reliability and traceability.
  • Maintain clear technical documentation, including data dictionaries, architecture diagrams, lineage, and testing protocols.


What they are looking for from you:

  • High level of experience with Microsoft Azure (Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake Gen 2)
  • Experience building stable and accurate data pipelines
  • Expertise with SQL and Python
  • Familiarity with medallion architecture
  • 4+ years working in a fast-paced data engineer position
  • Stakeholder management / engagement expertise
  • Housing / sector experience would be advantageous but isn’t essential


What they are offering you:

  • Generous salary of £75,200 for the right individual
  • 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Hybrid working 2 days a week on site (central London)
  • Up to a 10% pension contribution
  • Wellbeing cash plan / allowance
  • Further benefits to add alongside these


This is a fantastic opportunity for a great data engineer, who is looking for their next opportunity.


If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please apply on here or you can reach me directly on – attach a copy of your cv and we can arrange a time for a confidential call to discuss the role in more detail.


Looking forward to hearing from you.

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