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Data Engineer (Databricks) in Leeds, United Kingdom

Syntax Consultancy Ltd

  • RemoteWork from anywhere
  • HybridMix of office and remote
  • On-siteWork from the office
  • Full-timeStandard weekly hours
  • ContractFixed-term or freelance

Leeds, United Kingdom

Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements:

  • Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, PySpark, AWS, SQL, and Python.
  • Databricks experience with notebooks, scheduled jobs, cluster configuration, driver and executor logs, Spark UI, and performance troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Parquet, and Hive metastore tables, including schemas, partitions, and the relationship between table metadata and underlying files.
  • Hands-on AWS experience, particularly with S3, IAM, and CloudWatch; understanding of role-based access, KMS encryption, and diagnosing data access failures.
  • Working knowledge of Git, code reviews, CI/CD, and controlled production deployments, including testing, rollback, and release validation.
  • Advantageous: experience with AWS Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Linux, shell scripts, Terraform, GitLab, or Jenkins.
Responsibilities:
  • Run and maintain production data pipelines on Databricks and AWS.
  • Keep scheduled data processing reliable by resolving incidents, applying fixes, and improving data services performance.
  • Support and maintain production data pipelines, including incident investigation, safe recovery, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation.
  • Own incidents from investigation through recovery and closure; diagnose issues across Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks jobs, and AWS integrations.
  • Provide clear progress updates and escalate issues in a timely manner.
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • AWS Glue
  • Lambda
  • CI/CD
  • CloudWatch
  • Databricks
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Hive
  • IAM
  • Support
  • Jenkins
  • Linux
  • Python
  • PySpark
  • SQL
  • Spark
  • Terraform
  • UX UI Design
  • Cloud

More:

We are seeking a Data Engineer for a large-scale government project as part of a global IT transformation. This is a six-month contract based in Leeds, with a hybrid working model: primarily working from home, with travel to our Leeds office one to two days per month. The role combines L2/L3 production support with data engineering work and is due to start as soon as possible in October 2026. The rate is listed as £ per day, Inside IR35.

last updated 44 week of 2026

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