Data Engineer

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Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations Reading, Aberdeen, Perth or Glasgow.

Salary: £35,200- £52,800 + Performance-related bonus and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated, adaptable individual to make a real impact within SSE Renewables. We’re looking for someone who brings proactive problem‑solving, genuine enthusiasm, and strong data management expertise, and who thrives in a collaborative, forward‑thinking environment. You’ll join the Renewables Digital IM and Data Team as we scale a governed, cost‑efficient data platform designed to deliver robust, actionable insights that drive business value and support strategic decision‑making across the organisation.

As a Data Engineer, you will focus on designing, developing, and optimising data ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across One Lake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Synapse SQL/Spark. Your work will enable reliable data products and insights for stakeholders, and you’ll collaborate with data architects, analysts, and product teams to deliver robust ELT/ETL pipelines, model data for performance and usability, and apply best practices in security and data quality.

Working within the Data & AI team, you will support the design and development of data solutions by contributing to pipeline development, data modelling, and quality and security practices. This role is hands‑on and collaborative, providing opportunities to learn, work closely with stakeholders, and help deliver well‑structured, reliable data solutions aligned with business needs.

• Build and maintain data pipelines using Fabric and Synapse to ingest and transform batch and streaming data, ensuring data quality and scalable processing.
• Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse layers following bronze/silver/gold patterns, and model data optimised for BI and analytics, including Power BI and Direct Lake.
• Use Fabric Notebooks and Synapse Spark to perform large‑scale transformations and implement data quality and performance best practices.
• Support Governance, Security & Compliance by implementing Purview lineage/cataloguing, RBAC, data masking, encryption, and contributing to SLAs, SLOs, and data contracts.
• Collaborate across Dev Ops and product teams to refine requirements, deliver robust data solutions, and continuously develop your skills with evolving tools and technologies.

• Experience delivering data solutions in a growing business environment with varied data needs, and the ability to manage and prioritise workload effectively.
• Strong communication skills, able to engage clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders across the IM Apps & Data team and wider business.
• Adaptability and a proactive mindset, with a willingness to learn, develop, and approach challenges with a positive attitude.
• Proven Data Platform Engineering experience, including building metadata‑driven batch and streaming pipelines using Fabric and Synapse, and developing Lakehouse/Warehouse architectures using bronze/silver/gold patterns.
• Technical capability in large‑scale data processing, including using Fabric Notebooks (PySpark/SQL) and Synapse Spark for transformations and data quality, and designing performant BI/analytics data models with Power BI integration.

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're building the world's largest offshore wind farm. Transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day‑to‑day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

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