Senior Data Engineer
Role Overview
The Senior Data Engineer designs and delivers data pipelines, integrations, lakehouses, data warehouses and data models.
The role has a particular focus on developing solutions in Microsoft Fabric.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Oxfordshire County Council
The central Data Office brings together data architecture, engineering, analytics and spatial data expertise.
The team works across the organisation to improve data support for public services, operational delivery and resident outcomes.
Role overview
The Senior Data Engineer designs and delivers data pipelines, integrations, lakehouses, data warehouses and data models.
The role has a particular focus on developing solutions in Microsoft Fabric.
Key responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable, reliable and reusable data engineering solutions.
- Build ETL/ELT pipelines and integrations using Microsoft Fabric, SQL, Python and other suitable technologies.
- Design and configure Fabric pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses and data models.
- Support migration of on-premises data workloads to Microsoft Fabric.
- Implement data quality controls, testing and monitoring, and maintain technical documentation.
- Apply architecture standards, translate business requirements into practical solutions, and maintain catalogues, metadata and lineage.
- Collaborate with technical teams, analysts and business stakeholders.
Essential experience and skills
- Significant experience developing data integration, migration and warehousing solutions using one or more ETL platforms, such as Talend, Microsoft Fabric, FME or SSIS.
- In-depth SQL knowledge, including query and stored procedure optimisation.
- Experience building robust pipelines using Python, PySpark or other relevant programming languages.
- Hands-on Microsoft Fabric solution design and development across pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses and data layers.
- Strong data modelling and data discovery skills.
- Experience implementing testing and data quality controls.
Advantageous experience
- Creating and maintaining catalogues, technical metadata and data lineage with Microsoft Purview or another metadata management platform is advantageous.
Workplace
- Hybrid working, typically around one day a week in the office, with flexibility to discuss arrangements.
- The office base may change during the transition between temporary and permanent locations; the source notes that travel reimbursement will not apply.
Application
- Submit a current CV and a personal statement of no more than 750 words addressing the stated criteria.
- The posting gives an application deadline of 9 November 2026 and anticipated interviews during the first week of December 2026.
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