Data Engineer

Location: Leeds, United Kingdom; hybrid working model with some flexible working.

Company

hirify.global is a European technology partner delivering digital solutions for governments, critical industries, and businesses, including responsible AI and business-critical systems.

What you will do

• Build repeatable processes to receive, unpack, validate, and ingest data from multiple sources.
• Transform varied source extracts into consistent structures for migration to a single platform.
• Develop maintainable ingestion and transformation code using SQL, Python, PySpark, and dbt.
• Implement automated completeness and accuracy checks throughout the migration.
• Monitor, diagnose, and recover failed or incomplete data processing.
• Maintain auditable records of sources, mappings, transformations, outcomes, and secure data-handling controls while collaborating with data leads, analysts, platform teams, and source organisations.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and operating reliable data pipelines in a structured migration environment.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Spark, PySpark, Databricks, or comparable distributed processing technologies.
• Experience building modular, tested, and documented transformations using dbt or an equivalent approach.
• Strong SQL and Python skills for transformations, troubleshooting, validation, and reconciliation queries.
• Experience scheduling, monitoring, and recovering pipelines with cloud-native or equivalent orchestration tools.
• Experience with Delta Lake, including transactional tables, schema changes, and repeatable batch loading.
• Experience using Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools to provision and maintain consistent cloud environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Structured career development supported by a personal mentor from the leadership group.
• Collaborative, supportive, inclusive teams with equal opportunities for development.
• Responsible digitalisation focused on secure, transparent, and lasting impact.
• 25 days’ holiday, private medical healthcare via Vitality, pension contribution, and life assurance.
• Support for professional certifications, retail discounts, and Employee Resource Groups.
• Low-bureaucracy, agile, and flexible working culture.