Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid


Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary:	£70,000 to £90,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, EC2N 4AG
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 1 day remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	3 Nov 2026
Closing date:	10 Nov 2026

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Summary

Data Engineer - NO SPONSORSHIP OFFERED.

Target Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Range: Competitive (DOE)

Location: Eastleigh or London office (2 days a month required on site)

We are currently seeking Senior Data Engineers to join our innovative Data team. You will join a collaborative team of data and AI engineers, scientists, developers, analysts, and architects. Together, you will design and build modern machine learning and AI services that support analytics and improve products across the business.

Experience with PySpark, Python, SQL and DataBricks (or Snowflake) is required for these roles.

It's a chance to work on a very modern tech stack and learn from an incredible team.

Main Responsibilities as Senior Data Engineer:

Build and support data products within our modern data platform

Design and deliver solutions with engineers, scientists and product teams

Develop and optimise data pipelines across the analytics platform

Integrate data from varied sources with strong quality standards

Maintain orchestration, monitoring and performance of data components

Improve engineering processes across the wider data community

Promote high coding and data practice standards

Experiment with emerging data, ML and AI technologies

Partner with architects on data product designs

Work collaboratively in multi-functional agile squads

Support ML and GenAI infrastructure and workflows

Skills and experience you need as Senior Data Engineer:

Passion for building scalable, resilient cloud data platforms

Strong experience with Databricks or Snowflake on AWS

Proven Python skills, including Spark and Airflow expertise

Advanced SQL skills and end‑to‑end data modelling experience

Experience building batch and real-time data integrations

Hands-on CICD skills with Git, Jenkins or similar

Ability to ingest, cleanse and structure large, diverse datasets

Knowledge of Terraform or similar IaC tools

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial

Exposure to production Generative AI is an advantage

Strong collaboration skills and a proactive attitude

The business offers a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:

Flexible Working

Smart Working gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health

Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth

50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work

Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family

Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them

Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech

Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around

Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to wo

Return to work programme after maternity leave.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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