Senior Data Engineer

We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join an Intellias delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration programme for a financial services client. This is a hands-on senior role. You will write production code every week, own architectural decisions on your workstream, and mentor a paired mid-level engineer.

What project we have for you

Our client is an independent, active global asset manager with over R3 trillion in assets under management. They are executing a firm-wide data strategy to govern, manage and engineer data as a product across more than 70 business-owned sub-domains.

As part of this, they are migrating to Databricks as the foundational layer of their Enterprise Data Platform, adopting a lakehouse architecture built on open formats, declarative pipelines and Unity Catalog.

What you will do

• Perform the end-to-end delivery of one or more priority data domains on Azure Databricks.
• Design and build medallion (Bronze / Silver / Gold) pipelines using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Auto Loader, Structured Streaming and Delta Lake with Liquid Clustering.
• Register curated data products in Unity Catalog with the correct tags, masks, row filters, lineage and access policies.
• Implement data quality gates at the Silver-to-Gold boundary, and refine rules with domain stewards.
• Package and deploy work using Databricks Asset Bundles through Azure DevOps CI/CD
• Write automated tests and documentation
• Work at AI-as-Collaborator level today with a path to AI-as-Orchestrator, using Claude Code, Databricks Assistant, GitHub Copilot and MCP-connected agent tooling to accelerate the recurring parts of pipeline build, test and deploy.

What you need for this

• 6+ years of data engineering experience, with at least the last three years on Databricks in production.
• Deep hands-on experience with medallion / Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Strong python, PySpark and SQL, comfortable diagnosing performance issues on large workloads through Spark UI and Photon.
• Real production experience with streaming ingestion (Kafka Structured Streaming, Auto Loader) and CDC patterns.
• Experience implementing data quality at scale (Great Expectations or equivalent), plus lineage, cataloguing and access control.
• CI/CD on data platforms through Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, with infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Fluent working English.

Nice to have

• Active Databricks certifications
• Prior exposure to investment management platforms, asset management operations data, market data feeds from major providers
• CDMP DAMA certification or equivalent data governance credential.
• Experience applying agentic engineering tooling to production data engineering (not just personal productivity), including MCP-connected Databricks or cloud servers.