Data Engineer - One Day a Week in Basingstoke - Up to £75K
The Company
Fast-growing insurtech business transforming how insurance works through data-driven innovation. They've built a modern Azure Databricks platform from the ground up and now need an experienced engineer to help scale it.
Data sits at the heart of everything they do - from real-time pricing to customer insights to ML-powered underwriting. It's a tight-knit team that values good engineering, pragmatic solutions, and getting stuff done.
The Role
They're looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve their Azure Databricks estate. You'll be building frameworks, deploy infrastructure, optimise performance, and enable data teams to move fast.
This isn't just maintaining pipelines - you'll be shaping platform direction, making architectural decisions, and solving real infrastructure challenges at scale.
What they're looking for:
Essential:
Deep hands-on experience with Azure Databricks
Strong Python experience.
Experience deploying Databricks resources (Asset Bundles, workflows, clusters)
Understanding of Lakehouse architecture and data management
CI/CD and DevOps mindset
Self-starter who can work independently and figure things out
Nice to have:
Terraform or Infrastructure as Code
Unity Catalog implementation
Real-time streaming (Kafka, Event Hubs, Autoloader)
Power BI and dimensional modelling
MLOps experience
Background in regulated environments
The Package
Salary:
£70,000 - £75,000
Location:
Basingstoke office, 1 day per week on-site (mostly remote)
Environment:
Regulated insurance, so compliance and data quality matter
Culture:
Fast-paced, collaborative, engineering-focused
Tech stack:
Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Confluent Kafka, Delta Lake, Python/PySpark, Power BI, Azure DevOps
Why join?
Modern tech stack (no legacy mess to untangle)
Real ownership and influence over platform direction
Work on meaningful problems at scale
Supportive team environment
Regulated environment where good engineering actually matters