Senior Data Engineer

Location: London – Hybrid (3 days per week on-site)
Salary: Up to £72,000 + bonus and benefits

We're working with a leading technology and national security organisation that delivers complex digital, data and intelligence solutions across the UK public sector.

You'll be joining a team of data, cyber and technology specialists working on challenging projects that support government and national security customers. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful data engineering challenges while developing your technical skills in a collaborative environment.

• Building, improving and maintaining data pipelines to extract, transform and load data.

• Developing reliable, high-quality data solutions using software engineering and DataOps best practices.

• Working with cloud services to host data infrastructure and manage data storage.

• Collaborating with data architects, scientists, analysts and other engineers to deliver data solutions.

• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements and solve business problems.

• Applying best practices across data management, orchestration, security and data modelling.

• For more senior candidates, providing technical leadership, leading design sessions and helping shape data engineering platforms and delivery approaches.

• Experience in data engineering, with opportunities available across mid and senior levels.

• Strong technical skills in SQL and Python, or similar programming languages.

• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL processes.

• Understanding of data modelling, data management and orchestration.

• Experience with cloud platforms and data infrastructure.

• Knowledge of software engineering principles, CI/CD or DataOps practices.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders across different teams.

For senior-level positions, experience leading technical delivery, guiding engineering teams and contributing to solution design will also be important.

• Salary of up to £72,000, depending on experience.

• Company bonus scheme.

• 25 days' annual leave, with options to buy, sell and carry over leave.

• Competitive pension scheme.

• Private medical and dental insurance.

• Flexible working arrangements, with three days per week in the London office.

• Ongoing career development and opportunities to broaden your experience across data engineering, architecture and strategy.

• The chance to contribute to complex projects supporting national security and government customers.

Security Clearance: You must be eligible for Security Clearance and willing to undergo the clearance process if you are not already cleared.