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Data Engineer|Data Modeller | Azure | AWS | Databricks | MS Fabric | DBT | Airflow | Snowflake
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Engineering in Electrical and Electronics About me
Senior Data Engineer | Data Architect | Data Modeller with 18+ years’ experience. Expert in Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Fabric, Snowflake, PySpark, SQL, dbt & Airflow. Skilled in scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT, Lakehouse, Data Warehousing, Data Modelling, Governance & Cloud Migration.
Apache AirflowBig DataGoogle BigQueryData ArchitectureData GovernanceData IntegrationData Vault ModelingData WarehousingDevOpsData ProcessingAzure Data FactorySnowflakeApache SparkMicrosoft FabricPySpark
Highly experienced Data Architect | Data Engineer | Data Modeller with 18+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data platforms, modern data architectures and cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric ,DBT ,Airflow ,BigQuery , Redshift ,Snowflake,Python, Spark, Terraform, and CI/CD.
Strong expertise across the full data lifecycle including Data Architecture, Data Modelling, Data Engineering, ETL/ELT, Data Integration, Data Lakes, Lakehouse, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Data Quality, Cloud Migration, Performance Optimisation and DevOps.
Extensive hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade batch and near-real-time data pipelines, integrating complex enterprise data sources and delivering secure, governed and analytics-ready datasets.
Technical Expertise:
• Azure & Fabric: Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Lakehouse, Fabric Pipelines, Azure Databricks, ADF, Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL
• Databricks & Spark: Databricks, PySpark, Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, DLT
• AWS: S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lambda, IAM, Step Functions
• GCP: BigQuery and cloud data engineering
• Data Engineering: Python, PySpark, SQL, DBT, Apache Airflow, Talend, ETL/ELT, batch and near-real-time processing
• Data Architecture & Modelling: Conceptual, Logical & Physical Data Modelling, Dimensional Modelling, Star/Snowflake Schema, Data Vault 2.0, Medallion Architecture, Lakehouse and Data Warehouse design
• DevOps & IaC: Azure DevOps, Git/GitHub, CI/CD, YAML, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code and automated deployments
• Governance: Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, Security and Access Control
Extensive experience delivering ERP-to-Cloud and Legacy-to-Cloud migrations, modernising legacy platforms and integrating enterprise systems into cloud data ecosystems.
I combine architecture and data modelling expertise with strong hands-on engineering capability, covering the complete delivery lifecycle from requirements, architecture and modelling through development, optimisation, CI/CD, deployment and production support.
Experienced in leading technical delivery and working with architects, engineers, analysts and senior stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, secure and cost-effective data solutions.
Open to Data Architect, Cloud Data Architect, Lead/Senior Data Engineer and Data Modeller contract opportunities.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2011
Languages
EnglishFluent