Data Engineering Manager – Azure & Databricks

Location: Hybrid (London-based)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Type: Permanent (Open to contract)

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing Microsoft Partner consultancy on a mission to help businesses unlock the full potential of their data. They are building out their Data Engineering practice and are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead and shape this critical arm of their business.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a start-up consultancy at the forefront of cloud and data innovation, where you’ll have the autonomy to build a team, define best practices, and deliver data solutions for their clients.

The Role

As Data Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead and grow a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
• Design and deliver scalable data solutions using Azure and Databricks.
• Understand and implement data architecture principles to ensure robust, secure, and high-performing data platforms.
• Work closely with clients to translate business needs into end-to-end data strategies and solutions.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for data engineering within the business.
• Drive innovation and thought leadership in cloud data engineering.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in data engineering leadership or senior technical roles, working your way up from a data engineer.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Azure Data Services (Data Lake, Synapse, Data Factory) and Databricks - need to be comfortable getting into the weeds of the work and building stuff yourself as well.
• Solid understanding of data architecture concepts, ETL pipelines, and big data processing.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Passion for building teams and mentoring talent.
• Pre-sales experience, putting together POCs to help win new business as well.

Why Join Them?

• Be part of a startup consultancy with big ambitions and the backing of a Microsoft Partner network.
• Opportunity to shape the data engineering function from the ground up.
• Work on high-impact projects with cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborative, innovative, and growth-focused culture.

Our client welcomes candidates with notice periods – they’re happy to wait for the right person!

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