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Lead Data Engineer
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Posted:
29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
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Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
JN Bentley is a leading civil engineering and construction organisation that directly employs over 2500 people. We are a fast-growing business and are successfully working alongside companies such as National Grid Rolls Royce Yorkshire Water United Utilities Welsh Water Severn Trent Water the Environment Agency and the Coal Authority which has allowed us to progress as a leader in the UK construction and civil engineering sectors whilst developing and maintaining an excellent reputation with our clients. Across JN Bentley and our design and build companies MMB and JBA Bentley annual revenue now exceeds 650 million.
The Lead Data Engineer will design deliver and improve the organisations central data platform. The role combines data architecture hands-on engineering line management and technical leadership to provide secure scalable and trusted data for reporting analytics and AI.
As a Lead Data Engineer you will:
- Design and implement scalable data warehouse and Microsoft Fabric solutions.
- Define data architecture standards design patterns and engineering best practices.
- Develop conceptual logical and physical data models aligned with business requirements.
- Design build and maintain reliable data pipelines and integrations.
- Integrate data from databases APIs files and third-party platforms.
- Set standards for data ingestion transformation storage and consumption.
- Support data governance quality security lineage and access controls.
- Optimise the performance resilience storage and cost of the data platform.
- Evaluate new technologies and recommend solutions that meet business needs.
- Provide technical leadership design assurance and mentoring across the data team.
- Line manage members of the data team including objective setting development workload planning and performance support.
What youll need:
- Strong experience in data architecture data engineering or a comparable senior data role.
- Experience designing and delivering modern cloud data platforms ideally using Microsoft Fabric or Azure.
- Strong knowledge of SQL data modelling warehousing lakehouse architecture and integration patterns.
- Experience with data governance security source control and automated deployment practices.
- Strong communication problem-solving and technical leadership skills.
- Experience using source control tools such as Git.
- Previous line-management experience with the ability to develop support and motivate technical team members.
Whats in it for you
Enjoy hybrid working from our Leeds office (2 days per week) a competitive salary and a fantastic working culture. We offer a supportive environment and access to a wide range of financial lifestyle health and wellbeing benefits.
To view our full range of benefits please see the Bentley benefits brochure attached.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
