Data Engineer

Salary: £35,000 - 60,000 per year

• Strong experience delivering cloud data solutions, preferably in Microsoft Fabric or Azure; experience with AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks is also beneficial.
• Hands‑on expertise with Data Factory (Fabric or Azure), notebooks (Python, PySpark), advanced SQL, data modelling, and performance optimisation.
• Proven track record of building scalable data pipelines and implementing modern architectures such as Medallion.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, Azure Dev Ops, and API‑based integrations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Leadership capabilities with a proactive, solution‑focused mindset.
• Experience with legacy technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, SSIS, SAP Data Services, T‑SQL, or PL/SQL is desirable.
• Applicants must have been resident in the UK for at least the last five years due to security check requirements.

• Lead the modernisation of our data warehouse and implement Lakehouse architectures.
• Design, build, and optimise a secure, scalable cloud data platform within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
• Architect and optimise high‑performance, scalable data pipelines using SQL, Python, and Fabric Data Factory.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, analysts, and data scientists to deliver impactful data products.
• Serve as a technical leader by mentoring junior data engineers, driving best practices, and enhancing platform performance.
• Conduct monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimisation of legacy data issues.

• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Data Warehouse
• Databricks
• Dev Ops
• Fabric
• Git
• Oracle
• Python
• Py Spark
• SAP
• SQL
• Security
• Snowflake
• SSIS
• Support

We are a leading public sector organisation offering a full‑time Senior Data Engineer role in a hybrid working model with office days in Guildford or Lewes. This position offers the chance to make a significant real‑world impact by helping modernise our data systems and improve community safety through high‑quality data. We offer flexible working policies including job shares and part‑time options, an agile environment with control over your own diary and potential home working, career progression opportunities, a contributory pension scheme, generous annual leave, discounts for everyday spend, on‑site gyms and sports clubs, supportive parental leave, financial and mental wellbeing guidance, and a discounted contributory healthcare scheme.

last updated 29 week of 2026