Senior Data Engineer
Role Overview
Senior Data Engineer role building and operationalising FGH’s modern data and AI platform.
Work with the Data Architect, BI teams, and data product owners on a Microsoft Fabric and Lakehouse platform.
The role supports analytics and AI use cases across a digital retail organisation.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Senior Data Engineer role building and operationalising FGH’s modern data and AI platform.
Work with the Data Architect, BI teams, and data product owners on a Microsoft Fabric and Lakehouse platform.
The role supports analytics and AI use cases across a digital retail organisation.
Location and working arrangement
- The role is based at FGH Business Centre, Bradford.
- Hybrid flexibility is stated as two office days per week.
Solution delivery
- Design and build end-to-end Fabric ETL solutions and real-time data processing.
- Build Data Flow Gen2 and Fabric Notebook pipelines using Spark SQL and Python.
- Develop Medallion architecture lakehouses and semantic layers using star schema modelling and DAX.
- Deploy versioned artifacts through DevOps CI/CD and support reusable data product components.
- Optimize storage and retrieval for analytics, AI, and operational use.
Governance, integration, and engineering practices
- Embed data quality, lineage, and observability; support metadata management and data cataloguing.
- Support GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance and secure data handling with InfoSec and Risk teams.
- Integrate CRM, ERP, API, and other internal or third-party sources; monitor pipeline health and reliability.
- Automate deployment, testing, and monitoring, and apply modular, scalable, resilient engineering practices.
- Support platform sustainability and energy efficiency and align engineering with enterprise and business goals.
Collaboration and development
- Collaborate with architects, analysts, stakeholders, and platform teams; support data product onboarding and technical enablement.
- Evaluate third-party data tools and services, share knowledge, and mentor colleagues.
- Stay current with data engineering tools and cloud services and pursue continuous learning.
Essential qualifications and experience
- Able to commute to Bradford City Centre.
- A relevant computer degree or Microsoft certification is required; DP-700 is an example.
- Formal training, certification, or several years of experience in SQL, Python, or Spark is required.
- Familiarity with data mapping frameworks is stated as essential.
- Proven scalable ETL/ELT pipeline experience and direct Microsoft Fabric experience are required.
- Experience with SQL and Python, data integration, and pipeline monitoring, logging, and alerting is required.
About FGH Digital
Freemans describes a transformation into a modern, digital-first online retail business with a long home-shopping heritage.
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