[Hiring] Senior Data Engineer @Morgan Advanced Materials

Role Description

Morgan IT is responsible for running the digital transformation for Morgan, implementing a target IT architecture that will underpin and future proof the technical landscape supporting business operations stability and enabling business growth. The importance of data as part of this journey has been recognized and is being addressed through the implementation of a Global Data Platform.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Engineer to join our dynamic Global Data & Analytics Platform team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable data solutions using Microsoft Fabric. This role demands proficiency in programming, data modeling, and data pipeline orchestration, as well as expertise in Azure-specific tools and technologies. Strong soft skills are also essential to effectively manage the data engineering team, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum six years' experience in data engineering, with substantial exposure to Azure cloud services
• Demonstrable hands-on experience delivering production workloads on Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, and Fabric Data Factory
• Proven experience migrating Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory workloads onto Microsoft Fabric within a live environment
• Strong programming capability in Python and SQL, applied to production systems
• Practical experience with Apache Spark and PySpark at scale
• Working knowledge of Azure Synapse Analytics, including dedicated and serverless SQL pools and Spark pools
• Experience of dimensional modeling and lakehouse architecture
• Experience applying source control and CI/CD practices to data engineering deliverables
• Experience mentoring or line-managing engineers
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders across operational and commercial functions
• Professional working proficiency in English

Requirements

• Experience with Model Context Protocol, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, or vector stores
• Experience with dbt or comparable transformation-as-code tooling
• Experience with Terraform or Bicep
• Experience with Microsoft Purview or comparable data governance tooling
• Experience of manufacturing, engineering, or industrial data sources, including IoT, MES, and ERP systems
• Relevant Microsoft certification (DP-203, DP-600 or Fabric equivalents)
• Scala
• Degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience

Company Description

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organization with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose-driven organization. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

We help our customers push the limits of their processes and products to meet the demanding requirements they face, from higher process temperatures to higher product performance to increasing miniaturization.

• Revenue £1,100.7m (2024)
• ~8,000 employees
• Manufacturing in 20+ countries
• A global customer portfolio
• A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK
• Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index