Senior Data Engineer

About the job you're considering

Our Data & Intelligence Portfolio continues to experience significant growth, driven by new client engagements and increasing demand across our existing accounts. As demand continues to exceed forecasts, we are expanding our permanent engineering capability to support delivery excellence, strengthen our technical leadership community, and build sustainable capability for future growth.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our growing engineering team and play a key role in delivering high-quality data solutions within a fast-paced, agile environment.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-moving delivery environment and is comfortable adapting to changing priorities while staying focused on outcomes. You will take ownership and accountability for delivery, bring a continuous improvement mindset, and actively look for ways to improve quality, efficiency and customer outcomes through innovation, modern engineering practices and new technologies. Just as importantly, you will be collaborative and team-focused, showing leadership through clear framing, calm decision-making, and the ability to bring your team along on the journey by building shared understanding, explaining the ‘why’, and helping people stay aligned through change.

Experience mentoring junior engineers and supporting others to build confidence and capability is also important.

Hybrid working:
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business;it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of thetime.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspentcriminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead multiple teams in designing, building and optimising scalable data solutions across modern and existing services, while supporting the successful delivery of complex client programmes. Where you are leading across multiple teams, you will set the technical direction through the individual technical leads, helping them understand priorities, dependencies, delivery outcomes and the standards expected across their teams.

This role requires someone who can framework clearly, create alignment across teams, and provide the conditions for engineers to deliver confidently and consistently. You will be expected to adapt quickly to changing priorities, support continuous improvement initiatives, and leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to improve productivity, delivery speed and solution quality.

You will lead in uncertain and evolving delivery environments by helping technical leads and their teams navigate change, make pragmatic engineering decisions, and stay focused on quality and delivery commitments. The role requires someone who can set the tone for delivery, role model good engineering behaviours, and bring others with them through coaching, constructive challenge and clear communication.

Your skills and experience

Data Engineering Delivery
• Design and govern robust, scalable data engineering solutions.
• Support the migration and modernisation of legacy data platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, testers and business stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.

Technical Leadership
• Provide technical guidance and support to technical leads and other engineers.
• Promote engineering best practices and coding standards.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and…