Azure Data Engineer Job Central London area,City Of London England UK,Software Development

Location: City Of London

Azure Data Engineer

£500 per day | Outside IR35 | 6-Month Contract

Hybrid Working – Immediate Start Available – Initial 6-Month Contract with Extension Potential

The Role

As an Azure Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and optimising data pipelines and data platform capabilities within Azure. Working closely with architects, analysts and business stakeholders, you'll help deliver a modern, scalable and high-performing data ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable data pipelines within Azure
Support the migration of legacy data platforms and workloads to the cloud
Build and optimise ETL/ELT processes for data ingestion and transformation
Develop and maintain Databricks notebooks and workflows
Integrate data from multiple systems and applications
Ensure data quality, governance and security standards are maintained
Optimise data processing performance and platform efficiency
Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to deliver data solutions
Support the evolution of a modern cloud-based data platform

Essential Skills & Experience

Proven experience as an Azure Data Engineer
Strong hands‑on experience with Azure Databricks
Experience delivering data migration and cloud transformation projects
Strong SQL development skills
Experience with PySpark and/or Spark
Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Lake
ETL/ELT pipeline development
Data modelling and warehousing concepts
Experience working with large-scale datasets

Desirable Skills

Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft Fabric
CI/CD and Azure Dev Ops
Experience with in enterprise-scale environments
Knowledge of data governance and security best practice
Real‑time data processing and event-driven architectures

Contract Details

6-Month Initial Contract
£500 per day
Outside IR35
Hybrid Working
End-User Environment
Strong Extension Potential

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