Senior Data Engineer

Job description

Salary £46,142 - £51,356 Per Annum (Pay Award Pending) | Permanent | Full time, 37 hours per week | Hybrid working International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship. Data has the power to transform how public services are delivered — and at Lancashire County Council, we’re investing in modern data engineering to make that transformation real. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a key technical leadership role in modernising our data platforms, automating data flows, and enabling high‑quality analytics and business intelligence that supports better decisions across the organisation. This is a hands‑on, influential role where your expertise will shape how data is designed, engineered, governed and used at scale. What you’ll be doing: - Design, build and deploy scalable, automated ETL/ELT pipelines - Re‑engineer manual data processes into robust, repeatable data flows - Optimise data platforms to support analytics, reporting and statutory returns - Develop and maintain solutions using Microsoft Azure technologies, including Microsoft OneLake, Fabric, Azure SQL and SQL Server - Create dimensional data models and assured datasets that support in...