Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location: Manchester

Working: Remote

Salary: Up to £80k

Are you a Data Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while helping others grow?

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in shaping and delivering scalable, reliable, and high-performing data solutions that power decision-making across the business. This is an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with leadership, working at the heart of a growing data function where your ideas, experience, and technical judgement will have a genuine impact.

You'll be responsible for designing and building robust data pipelines, data models, and warehouse solutions while collaborating closely with analytics, product, and platform teams. You'll also act as a mentor to other engineers, helping to establish best practices, improve engineering standards, and drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys remaining hands-on while taking ownership of larger initiatives, influencing technical direction, and helping teams deliver complex projects successfully.

You'll design and maintain scalable data models and semantic layers, build reliable batch and streaming data pipelines, and ensure data is accurate, trusted, and readily available for business users. You'll lead the delivery of complex data engineering projects, working across multiple teams to solve challenging problems and improve the performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of our data platforms.

Working with modern cloud technologies, you'll help optimise warehouse and lakehouse environments, improve data governance and security, and establish engineering standards that enable the team to scale effectively.

You'll also play an important role in mentoring colleagues through code reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing, helping to raise capability across the wider engineering team.

You'll bring strong experience in modern data engineering practices, including data modelling, ETL/ELT development, orchestration frameworks, cloud-based data platforms, and data quality management. You will be comfortable working with technologies such as dbt, Airflow, PostgreSQL, cloud warehouses or lakehouses, and modern data architecture patterns.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who enjoys ownership, takes pride in building reliable solutions, and can balance technical excellence with practical delivery. You'll be a strong communicator who can work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and help translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative environment where data is central to business success. You'll have the autonomy to solve meaningful problems, influence engineering standards, work with modern technologies, and help shape the future of the data platform while continuing to develop your own technical and leadership skills.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership and make a measurable impact, we'd love to hear from you.