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Lead Data Engineer - Databricks

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A rapidly growing start-up Data Consultancy are about to go into their fourth year with big growth plans off the back of a very successful year 3. Working with their high performing team and blue-chip clients, this Lead Data Engineer should come with deep technical skills with Databricks and Azure.

Key skills and experience includes;

  • Deep technical skills with Databricks, implementation & optimisation, Unity Catalog rollout experience, managemrnt of ingestion pipelines, set up CI/CD, Databricks Asset Bundles would be ideal

  • Expert programming skills with Python, Spark & PySpark

  • Strong experience of Team & Project Leadership, Management, Mentoring / Coaching in Consultancy settings

  • Srong Azure Data Factory, Storage, Key Valult and Networking Concepts, Experience with Fabric would be beneficial

  • Strong Consulting skills and customer engagement - able to communicate complext technical solutions to non-technical customers and stakeholders

    This role will be mostly remote, but you should be willing to travel to client sites (expenses covered) up to 1 day per week.

    The role will be paid at circa £75,000 - £90,000 + benefits and bonus, depending on skills and experience and offers great opportunuties to report directly into the founders and play an essential role in the growth of this exciting scale-up.

    For more information on this excellent role and company, please respond with an up to date CV via the links provided and reach out to Kerry Foreman or Joe Ingleby at Primus Connect

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