My client is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines that deliver trusted, analytics‑ready datasets for BI, AI, and operational use cases across a hybrid environment.

• Build pipelines across bronze, silver & gold layers (Databricks, Spark, dbt)
• Implement data quality checks, contracts & schema validation
• Apply governance (catalog, lineage, RBAC, metadata)
• Deliver curated datasets, features & embeddings for AI/BI
• Monitor pipeline health, performance & cost to meet SLAs

• Databricks
• Spark
• Delta Lake
• dbt
• Azure Data Factory
• Kafka/Event Hubs
• CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub)

• Enforce data contracts, lineage & cataloging
• Apply masking, tokenisation & access controls (PII/PHI)
• Build observable pipelines with alerts, dashboards & runbooks <...