Senior Data Engineer - UK

At CluePoints, we’re redefining how clinical trials are run. As the premier provider of Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM) and Data Quality Oversight software, we harness advanced statistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to ensure the quality, accuracy, and integrity of clinical trial data, helping life sciences organizations bring safer, more effective treatments to patients faster.

We’re proud to be an ambitious, fast-growing technology scale-up with a dynamic and diverse international team representing more than 20 nationalities. Collaboration, flexibility, and continuous learning are part of our DNA.

At CluePoints, you’ll find a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and have fun along the way. Guided by our values of Care, Passion, and Smart Disruption, we’re united by a shared mission: to create smarter ways to run efficient clinical trials and deliver AI-powered insights that improve human outcomes worldwide.

This role is ideally on a hybrid basis, in London.

The Role We're hiring a hands-on Senior / Lead Data Engineer to help shape the next phase of our data platform. We have an established Azure estate (Azure SQL warehouse, ADF, stored-procedure bronze/silver/gold, Power BI), Fabric capacity now in place, and a modernisation programme to lead. You'll define the target Microsoft Fabric architecture, lead a pragmatic migration, strengthen our Kimball gold layer, and set the engineering standards for the team. This is not a purely managerial role — you'll design, code, review, and operate production solutions alongside the engineers you mentor.

• 8+ years hands-on data engineering and enterprise data warehousing, including senior or lead-level responsibility.
• Substantial production experience with Microsoft Fabric — at least one end-to-end implementation, modernisation, or migration you can walk through in detail.
• Deep Kimball dimensional modelling expertise across complex enterprise reporting workloads.
• Strong Azure stack: Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, and cloud/on-prem integrations.
• Advanced T-SQL (query tuning, load optimisation, troubleshooting) plus Python and/or PySpark for scalable transformation and automation.
• Practical technical leadership — mentoring, code review, and pragmatic architecture decisions communicated clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have• Microsoft certifications: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700), Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600), or relevant Azure certs.

• Microsoft Purview, Fabric administration, capacity management, OneLake shortcuts and mirroring.
• Infrastructure as code — Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, or Fabric/Azure APIs.
• Life sciences, clinical research, regulated data, or SaaS experience.

• Define the target Microsoft Fabric architecture and lead a phased, pragmatic migration from our current Azure SQL / ADF / stored-procedure estate.
• Build reusable ingestion and transformation patterns in Fabric — Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks, Delta, and T-SQL.
• Own and evolve our Kimball dimensional modelling standards for the gold layer; remediate existing models and design new ones.
• Partner with the Power BI team on semantic models (Direct Lake, RLS/OLS, performance) so business logic lives in the right layer.
• Establish Git-based CI/CD, data quality checks, lineage, security, and monitoring across Fabric and related Azure components.
• Act as a hands-on player-coach: design and code reviews, mentoring, engineering standards, and reference architectures.

🇬🇧 What We Offer – United Kingdom• Private Medical Insurance through Vitality Health (full hospital cover, 24/7 GP, and therapy sessions)

• Group Critical Illness Cover with Aviva
• Life Insurance (death-in-service lump sum)
• Pension Scheme with 9% employer contribution via Scottish Widows
• Opportunities for professional development and sponsored certifications
• A hub-based hybrid model that blends flexibility with purpose — connecting teams through collaboration, learning, and a vibrant social culture.

🇬🇧 Equal Opportunities & Data Protection StatementCluePoints is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Any personal data you share during your application will be processed in accordance with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and will be used solely for recruitment purposes. By submitting your application, you consent to the processing of your data for recruitment and employment purposes.

At CluePoints, we believe that diverse teams make better decisions and drive innovation. We’re committed to building a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone can thrive.