Designs, develops, governs, and optimizes cloud data pipelines and platforms using Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory. Owns data engineering quality, DevOps, CI/CD, release governance, performance optimization, data quality, and service SLAs. The role serves as a technical authority, mentors engineers, manages supplier standards, collaborates with data science and architecture teams, and communicates with business stakeholders. International travel to London-based operations is required at least twice annually.