Senior Data Engineer

Opus Recruitment Solutions
London, United Kingdom
Last week
£60,000 – £70,000 pa

Salary

£60,000 – £70,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
19 May 2026 (Last week)
Senior Data Engineer | Python | Airbyte | Apache | BigQuery | EducationTech | Remote, London | £70k

Looking to help shape Data Strategy for a scaling Tech-for-Good business?

I'm partnered with a AI-first data and analytics platform built for schools, multi-academy trusts and education groups. Their technology connects fragmented school data - attendance, behaviour, wellbeing, assessment, SEND and unstructured documents - and uses a multi-agent AI system to surface actionable insights for school leaders in seconds.

They are in a high-growth phase, backed by Innovate UK funding, with a roadmap spanning predictive analytics, supplier intelligence, and international expansion. The team is mission-driven, remote-first, and growing quickly - every hire has very meaningful impact.

They are looking for aSenior Data Engineer tobuild and maintain the data infrastructure that underpins the entire platform.

You’ll own and extend the ELT pipeline - Airbyte (OSS) for extraction, Airflow on Astro for orchestration, dbt via Cosmos for transformation - and the BigQuery lakehouse beneath it, with a semantic layer on top.

These are hands-on, build-and-operate roles in a team that takes engineering quality seriously.

Core Responsibilities:
  • ELT Pipeline Ownership: Extend and maintain the Airbyte Airflow dbt BigQuery pipeline.
  • Connector Development: Build custom Airbyte OSS connectors for MIS systems and third-party platforms.
  • dbt Modelling: Design and maintain dbt models across bronze/silver/gold layers.
  • Lakehouse Engineering: Own schema design, optimisation, partitioning and clustering in BigQuery.
  • Pipeline Reliability: Ensure data quality, observability and freshness across all pipelines.
  • Architecture Contribution: Help shape the evolving data platform as the product and dataset scale.

In return, you’ll get a competitive salary of up to £70k, and very flexible work arrangements across the UK.

Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship at this time.

Please contact me at to discuss further!

Senior Data Engineer | Python | Airbyte | Apache | BigQuery | EducationTech | Remote, London | £70k

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