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Syntax Consultancy Ltd Active Vacancy

Data Engineer

Employer: Syntax Consultancy Ltd Location: Derby Salary: £40,000/annum £40,000 + Benefits
Posted on
03 November 2026 (Yesterday)
Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
03 December 2026
Job Reference
225791943

About this role

This permanent Data Engineer role is based near Derby, offering hybrid working with three days a week from home and two in the office; the first one to two months are full-time office-based to help you get to know the role and team. The salary is £40,000 plus benefits, with a start ideally in November or December 2026. You will help develop and establish modern data engineering solutions, designing and building secure, scalable solutions, and using SQL, T-SQL, Spark SQL, PySpark and Python for data ingestion, transformation, optimisation and modelling.

Job Description

Data Engineer
Derbyshire (Hybrid)
Permanent
£40,000 + Benefits

Data Engineer needed for a permanent full-time position based near Derby (Hybrid). Hands-on MS Fabric experience preferred but not essential.

Hybrid Working - 3 days/week working remotely from home + 2 days/week working from the office. The first 1-2 months will be full-time from the office to allow you to get to know the role + the team.

A chance to join an established and growing business with a proven track record in their industry. Start ideally Nov/Dec 2026:

  • Data Engineer needed to help develop + establish modern Data Engineering solutions.
  • Strong hands on experience of Microsoft Fabric for designing + building secure, scalable Data Engineering solutions.
  • Experience of core MS Fabric features including: OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Pipelines, Dataflows, Gen2, Notebooks, Eventstreams + Eventhouses.
  • Using SQL, T-SQL, Spark SQL, PySpark + Python for data ingestion, data transformation, data optimisation, data modelling, and converting structured/unstructured source data into validatd Delta tables.
  • Using Power BI for semantic models, data preparation + data performance.
  • Integrating 3rd party APIs and a range of structured and unstructured data sources into Microsoft Fabric, including working with external suppliers + Microsoft partners.
  • Experience of migrating from legacy data solutions, or helping to establish new Data Engineering solutions.
  • Advantageous: MS Certified Fabric Data Engineer Associate, Medallion, Delta Lakes, Azure Data Factory, DevOps, IaC, CI/CD, Kusto Query Language (KQL), MS Purview, Key Vault, GenAI, + Agile Delivery.
  • Benefits: Salary to £40,000 (DOE) + Remote/Hybrid Working + Pension + 25 days holiday + BHs + BUPA Health Care + Life Insurance + More.