Technical Lead - Datacore

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience in cloud data engineering, data platform delivery or data product implementation within an enterprise environment
• Strong practical understanding of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure data services or equivalent cloud data platform technologies
• Proven ability to translate architectural principles into implementation patterns, technical standards and development work packages
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, secure and supportable data products or cloud data services
• Strong understanding of lakehouse architecture, medallion patterns, data ingestion, transformation, orchestration and data publication
• Experience supporting federated or distributed delivery teams through technical guidance, design review, enablement and reusable delivery patterns
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, risks and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Hands-on technical credibility in relevant data engineering technologies such as SQL, Python, Spark, notebooks, orchestration tools, APIs and cloud data platforms

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for the design and delivery of Datacore platform capabilities, cloud data services and reusable engineering patterns
• Support client-facing teams in adopting Datacore safely and consistently across their development of new data products and services
• Define reusable implementation patterns for common Datacore use cases, including ingestion, medallion architecture, data quality, orchestration, semantic modelling and publication
• Define and promote controlled engineering practices across Datacore assets, including source control, development, testing, deployment, validation and support
• Identify opportunities to improve Datacore capability, efficiency, lineage, discovery, automation, observability, and cost effectiveness
• Work closely with data architects, technical teams, business partners, and internal stakeholders to align technical delivery with business priorities

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• Cloud
• Databricks
• Fabric
• Support
• Python
• SQL
• Spark

More:

We are seeking a Technical Lead to join our Data, Analytics & AI team within a professional services environment. The role focuses on supporting our cloud data platform, Datacore, across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and wider Azure services. We work with federated and client-facing teams to help them adopt Datacore safely, consistently and effectively. This is a permanent, experienced-hire opportunity based in Manchester. We offer hybrid and flexible working, 26 days holiday with the option to purchase additional days, and a flexible reward and benefits package that includes lifestyle, health and wellbeing support, financial wellbeing benefits, an electric car scheme, access to a virtual GP, and 300+ on-demand courses from our inhouse Talent Development team.

last updated 35 week of 2026