Senior Data Engineer

Job summary

ABOUT THE ROLE Senior Data Engineer Permanent position Home-based The Role: The purpose of the role is to provide senior technical leadership and hands on delivery of the James Fisher & Sons (“JFS”) data platform and data products.

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Qualifications

• identify dependencies, and propose realistic delivery options.
• Balance competing domain demands through transparent sequencing and planning.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Implement and maintain data governance controls within engineering solutions.
• Support data quality monitoring, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to and maintain technical documentation, data lineage, and metadata artefacts.
• Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory
• Continuous Improvement:
• Promote modern engineering and delivery practices across the data team.
• Introduce automation, optimisation, and improved tooling where appropriate.
• Support organisational adoption of data products through reliability and usability.
• What we’re looking for:

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority for data engineering across the organisation.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Own key technical decisions and manage technical debt pragmatically.
• Manage, mentor and guide Data Engineers, supporting capability development and consistency.
• Design, build, and maintain an integrated data platform and lakehouse architecture that meets business needs.
• Develop and maintain logical and physical data models optimised for analytics and reporting.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, performant, and cost effective.
• Evolve the data platform in line with business growth and emerging

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