Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for the architecture, operation and development of Cash Access UK ’s data platform, built on Microsoft Fabric and Azure. The role works closely with the Insights & Analysis team, business data owners, the Data Governance Consultant, Technology Operations, suppliers and the Head of Data and Technology to keep the platform reliable, bring new data into it safely and ensure the data it holds can be trusted for reporting and decision making. The platform brings together data from the banking hubs, the Post Office and community banking channels, incident and survey systems, reference data, member banks and public data sources. It was built with a delivery partner and is now moving into business-as-usual operation, and the Senior Data Engineer takes ownership of it as that transition completes, including the runbook, documentation, backlog, alerting and recovery arrangements. This is a hands-on engineering role where design, build and operation sit with the post holder rather than with a supplier. The Senior Data Engineer is accountable for the platform’s data pipelines, data models, databases, APIs and Microsoft Fabric integrations, for the engineering standards that govern how they are built and released, and for reducing the organisation’s reliance on supplier-led development. The role supports data quality and governance by implementing the data quality rules, critical data elements, definitions, lineage, classification, access contro