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Data Engineer
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Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
Our predicted code SOC 5242 (91% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £41,700, and Chroma Recruitment is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the published rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
Data & AI Engineer
Manchester (hybrid, 3 days in the office) | £45,000 to £60,000 DOE | Permanent
We're working with a handful of clients right now who all want the same kind of person: someone who can build things with data and actually get them into production. Pipelines, platforms, integrations, and increasingly AI agents on top of all of it.
If you're a data engineer who's been eyeing up the AI side, or you've been building agents and want a proper engineering environment to do it in, this is worth a conversation.
What you'd be doing
Depending on which of our clients is the right fit, that could look like:
- Building and operationalising ETL/ELT pipelines, data models and APIs for a long-standing financial services client, with the documentation and stakeholder comms to match
- Designing a modern Azure data platform from the ground up. Microsoft Fabric, ADF, medallion architecture, master data management, and modelling data so the business can actually self-serve through Copilot
- Standing up a brand new AI function. Greenfield, no legacy estate, building agents and automations across Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and Claude, taking POCs through to production
What we're looking for
The core is the same across all of them:
- Solid hands-on data or software engineering experience, not just prototyping
- Strong SQL and Python
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integration patterns
- Comfort with cloud, ideally Azure (ADF, ADLS, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Event Hubs, Function Apps)
- Genuinely good written communication. Every one of these clients cares about documentation and being able to explain a decision
- The judgement to own a piece of delivery end to end and defend the calls you made
Then at least one of:
- Data platform: Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouses, Warehouses, Pipelines), Synapse, Delta Lake, medallion architecture, MDM and data quality frameworks
Nice to have
DevOps and CI/CD with Git and Azure DevOps, streaming and event-driven patterns (Event Hubs, Kafka), data governance and cataloguing (Purview), experience in fast-paced commercial or high-volume operational environments.
The details
- Permanent, Manchester based, 3 days a week in the office with some flex
- Salaries between £45,000 and £60,000 depending on the role and your experience
- Starts ranging from immediate to September
- You'll need to be Manchester based with the right to work here already. No sponsorship available
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Where this offer sits in the market
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 5242 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.