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Emmanuel Edegbo

Lead Data Engineer & Architect

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Emmanuel Edegbo is a Lead Data Engineer & Architect with over 20 years of enterprise experience spanning government, energy, and retail sectors. He has designed, built, and managed data platforms for some of the UK's most recognised organisations.

As the founder of CareerSwerve and CubedNet Limited, Emmanuel combines deep technical expertise with a passion for teaching. His training programmes are built on the principle that genuine competence comes from hands-on practice with real-world scenarios — not theoretical exercises.

Emmanuel holds extensive experience in SQL Server, Power BI, Python, Databricks, and Azure cloud infrastructure. His courses reflect the standards and practices used in enterprise environments, ensuring learners are prepared for real job requirements.

Sector experience

Events & Aerospace

  • Farnborough International · Lead Data Engineer
    Building a scalable, high-performance data platform supporting one of the UK's flagship aerospace and B2B events organisations.

Government & National Infrastructure

  • Home Office (via PA Consulting) · Lead Data Engineer
    SC-cleared lakehouse architecture and data engineering on the Home Office Data Estate Modernisation programme — Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Terraform-driven CI/CD.
  • National Energy System Operator (NESO) · Tech Lead
    Migrated the National Grid's legacy Azure data estate to NESO and architected a Databricks lakehouse for the Plexos energy market simulation platform.
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) · Lead Data Engineer
    Architected a metadata-driven ingestion platform on Azure and Databricks supporting the Clean Power 2030 initiative, transitioning from a consultancy-delivered platform to a government-owned solution.
  • DEFRA · Lead Data Engineer
    Architected DEFRA's multi-cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP) data ingestion strategy on a hub-and-spoke model with centralised governance, security, and audit controls.

Energy & Industry

  • Shell Energy · Senior Data Engineer / Tech Lead
    Owned the Aligne-to-Endur Trade Risk Management migration — modelling, pipelines, and architecture-board approvals across Databricks, SAP HANA, and Dynamics 365.
  • Shell Energy · Lead Data Engineer
    LimeJump AWS-to-Azure data platform migration for renewable-energy commodity trading, with end-to-end Databricks, Spark, and Data Factory pipelines.
  • Shell Trading and Supply · Lead Data Engineer
    Built the ingestion platform supporting commodity trading operations — batch and streaming pipelines, Databricks lakehouse design, and stakeholder engagement with front-office trading teams.
  • Atlas Copco · Lead Data Engineer
    Designed scalable ingestion frameworks and reference architectures, presenting designs to stakeholders and mentoring engineers on platform best practices.

Retail & Professional Services

  • Kingfisher Group · Lead Technical Data Engineer / Architect
    Group-level data platform across the Kingfisher portfolio (which owns B&Q and Screwfix), integrating Azure, AWS, and GCP into a unified hub-and-spoke architecture with centralised Purview governance.
  • Chambers and Partners · Lead Data Engineer
    Improved the data platform with end-to-end ingestion and transformation of complex XML / JSON data via Azure Data Factory and Databricks, plus unit-tested business-critical transformations.
  • Shell Retail · Senior Data Engineer
    Facilities Management ETL ingestion framework on Azure — Data Lake, Data Factory, Databricks pipelines, and Synapse warehousing — with delta lake transactional integrity.
  • AcalBFi · Lead Technical Operations Developer
    Architected an enterprise data warehouse using Kimball modelling, integrating Salesforce, NetSuite, and Oracle JD Edwards via SSIS-based ETL.
  • Prism Data Management · Senior Software Developer
    Led an 18-developer team delivering CRM, ERP, data warehouse, and POS solutions for 8 enterprise clients — including warehouse cross-docking optimisation.

Insurance & Financial Services

  • HX Insurance — Howden Group · Lead Data Architect / Engineer
    Overhauled the enterprise data architecture serving the London Insurance Market — scalable ingestion, Purview-driven governance, and offshore engineering team leadership.
  • REG Insurance · Senior Data Engineer
    Built a CRM extension integrating HubSpot with the REG GI Platform via OAuth2 and webhook integrations, with CI/CD on Azure DevOps.

Training & Education

  • CareerSwerve.io · Technical Mentor — Data Engineering
    Mentor engineers on Databricks lakehouse architecture, Medallion design, governance with Unity Catalog, and CI/CD-driven platform engineering.
  • NIIT · Java Faculty
    Delivered technical training in Java, web development, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and data modelling, tailoring course material to diverse learner needs.