Azure Databricks Engineer in London, Greater London
Posted by Opus Recruitment Solutions
£500 – £550 a day
London · Contract
We're recruiting for an experienced Azure Databricks Engineer to join a growing data team. You'll be responsible for designing, developing and supporting scalable data solutions across Azure and Databricks, helping to deliver reliable, high-quality data for the business. This role would require you to be onsite 4 days per week with the final day being remote.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop Databricks solutions using SQL, PySpark and Python.
- Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines across Azure, SQL Server and Databricks.
- Support Lakeflow pipelines, production jobs and data quality processes.
- Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise data workflows and platform performance.
- Work with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and modern data lake architectures.
- Integrate Azure services including ADLS, Data Factory, Key Vault and REST APIs.
- Support CI/CD deployments and Databricks automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks in an enterprise environment.
- Excellent SQL Server/T-SQL and data engineering skills.
- Experience building and optimising large-scale data pipelines.
- Knowledge of Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Azure data services.
- Exposure to Git, CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools.
- Strong communication skills and a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Databricks certifications.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, MLflow or Terraform.
- Background working on enterprise data warehouse or data lake projects.
If this Data Engineer role sounds like a good fit, you can work 4 days per week on site in London and you’d like to know more, please apply with your most up‑to‑date CV and I’ll be in touch.
Azure Databricks Engineer | Inside IR35 | £500 - £550 | Hybrid | London
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