ownership of the architecture, design and technical leadership of an enterprisehelping define best practice whilst remaining hands-on across complex data enginExperience within Energy and Utilities, particularly Energy Trading, is idealInterim Inside IR35 day-rate contract role:We''re recruiting for an experienced Lead Data Architect / Lead Data Engineer to join a major Energy and Utilities transformation programme. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a modern Azure Databricks platform, leading architecture whilst remaining technically hands-on across enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives. You''ll work alongside senior stakeholders, engineering teams and architects to design scalable Lakehouse solutions supporting critical business data. What you''ll be doingLeading Azure Databricks architectureDesigning enterprise Lakehouse solutionsBuilding scalable Spark and Delta Lake pipelinesDesigning streaming and batch data platformsDriving engineering best practiceMentoring engineersWorking closely with senior business stakeholdersDefining future-state data architecture Technical EnvironmentAzure DatabricksApache Spark / PySparkDelta LakeAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake Gen2Azure Event HubsAzure SynapsePythonSQLTerraformCI/CDMedallion Architecture We''re looking for Expert Databricks experience Strong Azure Data Platform experience Enterprise Data Architecture Hands-on technical capability Leadership experience Excellent stakeholder engagement Previous Energy, ..... full job details .....