Data Engineer (Python, PySpark & Databricks)

We are looking for a Data Engineer to design, build, modernize, and operate scalable data pipelines supporting Tax technology platforms. This role focuses on developing and enhancing data processing workloads using Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks, while ensuring reliable, secure, and maintainable data solutions. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on engineering skills, experience with production ETL/ELT pipelines, data ingestion, APIs, data quality, and cloud-based data platforms, along with strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

• →Design, build, and support scalable data pipelines using Python, Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks.
• →Modernize and migrate legacy data processing workloads to secure, cloud-native platforms.
• →Build and maintain batch data ingestion pipelines from structured and unstructured sources.
• →Integrate data from REST APIs, SharePoint, document repositories, enterprise applications, and cloud platforms.
• →Implement data quality, monitoring, observability, and operational controls.
• →Optimize data workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• →Develop document extraction, classification, metadata enrichment, and automation pipelines.
• →Apply software engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews.
• →Build, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain production ETL/ELT pipelines.
• →Collaborate with architects, developers, tax subject matter experts, and platform teams.
• →Analyze existing codebases and identify opportunities to improve maintainability, security, and reliability.
• →Use AI-assisted development tools to build, review, test, and maintain data pipeline code.

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Strong Apache Spark and PySpark experience.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills.
• Experience building, testing, deploying, and troubleshooting production ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience consuming REST APIs for data ingestion, including authentication, pagination, and failure handling.
• Experience writing automated tests for data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data quality, reliability, and data engineering best practices.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Experience with Azure cloud services and modernising legacy data pipelines.
• Experience with document processing, intelligent document extraction, or unstructured data.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
• Experience with streaming data pipelines or large-scale data repositories.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, with the ability to analyse unfamiliar codebases, identify gaps and trade-offs, and propose practical improvements.