Senior Data Engineer (6-month contract)

gravity9 is a boutique IT consulting company headquartered in the UK with offices in the US, Canada, and Poland. Our team has deep experience in engineering, experience design and product management. We enjoy a challenge and pride ourselves on working with our clients on their most complex problems, finding elegant and flexible solutions that help them transform their businesses. Role Description We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our client's Product Development team within their Digital Practice. In this role, you will play a key part in client digital transformation journeys by delivering solutions that support decision-making, autonomous execution, and integrated operations. You will focus on productizing deep subject-matter expertise through robust data platforms and AI-enabled solutions built on Microsoft Azure. Operating within a flat, connected organization that values innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset, you will challenge existing ideas to take business outcomes to higher levels. The ideal candidate is a confident, passionate, and outcome-oriented leader with exceptional communication skills who excels at setting direction, mentoring team members, and leading directly by doing. A successful candidate would: · Work in Agile teams to deliver the committed backlog against acceptance criteria · Design, build and operate ingestion and orchestration pipelines in Azure Data Factory · Develop ETL/ELT in Azure Databricks using a medallion architecture to deliver trusted data for analytics, reporting and AI · Lead code reviews and set engineering standards; take part in estimating, planning, testing, deployments and documentation · Shape data architecture decisions, including metric definitions, semantic models and data that serves AI agents · Apply data governance, security and access controls in line with client classification and residency requirements · Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate delivery without compromising quality or security · Communicate progress, open items and issues to stakeholders, including management · Stay abreast of relevant technology developments