A purpose-driven technology company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join its Platform Delivery team, supporting the development of data infrastructure that powers its core products. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone passionate about using data to drive social impact, with strong SQL skills, autonomy, and a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and SQL Server, with a strong emphasis on writing and optimizing SQL code
• Ingest and transform structured and semi-structured datasets, applying advanced SQL queries to ensure data quality, performance, and governance
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure pipeline reliability and data integrity
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to align data components with platform architecture

Key Requirements:

• Strong SQL expertise: must be able to write SQL from scratch
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and ideally Azure SQL
• No consulting experience required
• Infrastructure knowledge not required (handled by a separate team)
• Communication: design-level collaboration with internal stakeholders including lead engineers and infrastructure
• Autonomous and self-sufficient
• Nice-to-haves: experience with ADF (Azure Data Factory), familiarity with Azure and Python (Python less relevant)

Details:

• Start date: ASAP
• Contract type: 3–6 month contract
• Salary: Competitive, based on experience
• Working model: Hybrid, 2 days in office (London-based)