Data Lead - ETRM/Azure

Data Platform Lead (Azure, ETRM) – Energy – London

Daily rate: £600 - £800

Duration: 6 months

Start: ASAP

My client is looking for an experienced Data Platform Lead with a strong background in data platforms, cloud-based data engineering, and trading data domains. The successful candidate will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a centralized trading and LNG data platform, ensuring data is reliable, accessible, reusable, and aligned to business objectives.

This role will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, translating complex trading requirements into scalable data products and data platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for enterprise trading and LNG data platforms.
• Partner with business, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver scalable and reusable data solutions.
• Translate trading and LNG business requirements into high-quality data products and platform capabilities.
• Manage end-to-end data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, enrichment, storage, lineage, and consumption.
• Establish and maintain data quality, governance, traceability, and validation processes.
• Define data models and implementation approaches that balance business needs, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Convert complex trading processes and source-system logic into clear requirements, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive the development of curated data layers, reporting solutions, and downstream data consumption capabilities.
• Promote best practices across data architecture, modelling, and engineering design patterns.

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Databricks
• Azure Data Factory (ADF)
• Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
• Advanced SQL and Python development skills.
• Strong understanding of data engineering design patterns and best practices.
• Experience with data modelling and data architecture.
• Expertise in batch and streaming data processing.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and products.
• Strong stakeholder management and requirements gathering capabilities.

Domain Experience

• Experience working within trading, commodities, energy, or LNG environments.
• Understanding of trading data entities, processes, and workflows.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical data solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Endur/Openlink.
• Power BI development experience.
• Power Apps experience.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud services and modern data platform architectures.

Preferred Background

• Experience in Energy Trading, Commodities Trading, LNG, Utilities, or Capital Markets.
• Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience working within Agile product and delivery environments.