About this role
Opencast is looking for a Data Engineer - Senior Consultant to join its team in London, United Kingdom, working on a hybrid schedule. It is a Data Science & AI role, and the posting is filed under that category. The hybrid setup means some days on-site and some days working remotely. It suits someone working at senior who wants the next step. If the title and the setup match what you are looking for, the full description below has the details.
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Job Overview
Job description provided by Opencast.
Opencast is hiring a senior consultant data engineer to build reliable, scalable data foundations that help organisations make better decisions and deliver better services. The work covers integration, migration, modelling and platform design, using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and modern data technologies across the full data lifecycle. Projects range from building modern lakehouse and warehouse platforms in Microsoft Fabric to modernising legacy environments and migrating complex workloads. The postholder will build batch and near real-time data pipelines underpinning critical business and public services, working with structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. Essential experience includes Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services, enterprise-scale data platforms, Kimball-style data modelling, ETL/ELT development and large-scale integration. Further requirements include PySpark and Spark SQL, advanced SQL across SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle, Power BI semantic models, and data quality, governance and lineage. The role also involves mentoring, recruitment and technical leadership, helping to guide the direction of Opencast's growing data engineering capability. Applicants must hold or be eligible for Security Check clearance, and the salary is £61,000 to £70,000 per annum. The role is hybrid across Opencast's hub locations including London, with weekly on-site work and regular travel to client sites across the UK.