Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location: Shropshire, South Staffordshire, West Midlands, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey
Type: Permanent, Hybrid (2 days p/week onsite)
Salary: £55,000-£70,000 base D.O.E + benefits
Security clearance: Must be eligible for SC clearance

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a growing technology team delivering modern data solutions for a range of complex environments. This role involves building reliable data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, and supporting the development of secure, scalable data platforms. You will work closely with engineers, analysts and stakeholders to ensure data is accurately collected, transformed and made available for reporting, analytics and operational use.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement secure and reliable data integration solutions
• Build and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation and curation
• Work with data from multiple systems and platforms
• Monitor and support data pipelines to ensure reliability and performance
• Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to gather requirements
• Investigate and resolve issues affecting data services
• Contribute to team knowledge sharing and engineering best practices
• Work within Agile delivery teams

Skills and experience

• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modelling
• Experience building ETL or ELT data pipelines
• Experience working with databases or data platforms such as Oracle or Cloudera
• Experience with ETL tools such as Talend, Pentaho DI, Informatica, AWS Glue or SAS
• Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Python or Bash
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, ideally AWS
• Understanding of data integration, transformation and orchestration
• Experience using version control such as Git

Security clearance

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance. Applicants will normally need to have lived continuously in the UK for the past five years and hold the right to work in the UK.

So, if you're an experienced data engineer with the desired skills and feel this could be the role for you, please apply now to be considered!