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Data Engineer in Leeds, United Kingdom

Syntax Consultancy Ltd

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

£60k - £65k per annum

Leeds, United Kingdom

Salary: £60,000 - 65,000 per year Requirements:

  • Were looking for strong hands-on experience with Databricks, AWS, Python, PySpark and SQL.
  • We need experience with Databricks notebooks, scheduled jobs, cluster configuration, driver and executor logs, Spark UI, and performance troubleshooting.
  • Were looking for experience with Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Parquet, Hive metastore tables, schemas, partitions, and the relationship between table metadata and underlying files.
  • We need hands-on AWS experience, particularly with S3, IAM and CloudWatch, plus an understanding of role-based access, KMS encryption, and diagnosing data access failures.
  • Were looking for a working knowledge of Git, code reviews, CI/CD, and controlled production deployments, including testing, rollback and release validation.
  • Experience with AWS Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Linux, shell scripts, Terraform, GitLab or Jenkins would be advantageous.
Responsibilities:
  • We need you to run and maintain production data pipelines on Databricks and AWS.
  • Youll keep scheduled data processing reliable, resolve incidents, apply fixes, and improve data service performance.
  • Youll provide a combination of L2/L3 production support and data engineering.
  • Youll support and maintain production data pipelines, including incident investigation, safe recovery, root cause analysis and permanent remediation.
  • Youll own incidents from investigation through recovery and closure, diagnosing issues in Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks jobs and AWS integrations.
  • Youll 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:

Were hiring a Data Engineer for a permanent, full-time role on a large-scale Government project as part of a leading global IT transformation. The position is based in Leeds with a hybrid model, primarily working from home and typically travelling to our Leeds office once or twice a month. The expected start is ASAP in October or November 2026. We offer a salary of £60,000–£65,000, depending on experience, remote/hybrid working, a pension, 22 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 25 days), death-in-service cover and a healthcare plan.

last updated 44 week of 2026

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