Data Engineer - LiveLink Telematics

Salary: Competitive Salary

Contract Type: Full Time

Working Pattern: Permanent

The Live Link team sits at the heart of JCB’s connected technology strategy, supporting the uptime and performance of a global fleet of over 500,000 connected machines. Our core product, JCB Live Link, is a cloud‑based telematics platform that enables customers to monitor machine safety, sustainability, and efficiency across JCB equipment, mixed fleets, construction projects, and agricultural sites.

We’re looking for a highly motivated Data Engineer to play a critical role within the JCB Live Link development team. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and evolve our data infrastructure, ensuring reliable, scalable, and efficient data flow for both analytical and operational use. You’ll design, build, and maintain modern data pipelines that underpin advanced analytics and machine learning on an AWS‑based platform.

• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines for both real‑time and batch processing of telematics data
• Building and maintaining robust ETL processes to ingest and integrate data from multiple sources
• Developing cloud‑native data solutions using AWS services including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, and Step Functions
• Designing, implementing, and optimising SQL and No
  
  SQL databases to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability
• Managing large‑scale datasets using Apache Iceberg tables and S3‑backed table formats, enabling efficient querying, storage optimisation, and versioning
• Creating automated workflows for data ingestion, transformation, and model training using infrastructure‑as‑code principles
• Supporting MLOps and CI/CD pipelines for machine learning model deployment and automation
• Implementing data quality, validation, monitoring, and governance processes to ensure accuracy and integrity
• Working closely with data analytics and engineering teams to support model training, deployment, and ongoing monitoring

• You have hands‑on experience designing and building data pipelines for large‑scale or data‑intensive platforms
• You’ve worked with ETL pipelines and data warehousing solutions in cloud environments
• You have strong experience with AWS data services, including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, and Step Functions
• You have practical experience working with Apache Iceberg or similar modern table formats
• You’re comfortable working with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (Postgre
  
  SQL and Mongo
  
  DB preferred)
• You have experience applying infrastructure‑as‑code principles using tools such as AWS Cloud Formation
• You’re proficient in modern programming languages for data engineering and automation (Python or Java preferred)
• You have experience with real‑time messaging or streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, AWS Kinesis, or SQSYou understand how data pipelines support machine learning training, inference, and monitoring
• You take ownership of your work, enjoy solving complex problems, and are motivated by building scalable, high‑quality data solutions
• You’re comfortable working both independently and collaboratively within cross‑functional teams
• You’re passionate about data engineering and continuously learning emerging technologies

This is your chance to join a company that values expertise not only in rewards but also in real employee care. At JCB you don’t just get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday and access to our company pension—you can also use our onsite gym, in‑house doctor and dentist. We have an ULEV car scheme available for our employees too. Then there’s the JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts with high street retailers.

Feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.

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