Data Engineer SC Cleared

Telford (2 days per week on-site)

Up to £530 per day

6-month contract

Active SC Clearance required

We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a newly formed scrum team working on a large-scale, data-driven platform within a highly regulated public sector environment. This role focuses on building and enhancing robust data acquisition, ingestion, and risking services that underpin critical analytics and decision-making capabilities.

You’ll play a key part in designing and delivering scalable data pipelines and integration services that consolidate multiple data sources into a unified, high-performance platform. The work supports complex analytical and BI workloads, leveraging modern data engineering, cloud, and Dev Ops practices.

• Design, build, and deploy data integration and transformation solutions
• Develop scalable data pipelines and services for analytics and BI platforms
• Work closely with product owners, analysts and engineers to define requirements and deliver solutions
• Contribute to Agile / Scrum ceremonies and continuous improvement
• Implement Dev Ops practices including CI / CD, automated testing, and deployment
• Ensure high standards of data quality, governance, and security
• Troubleshoot complex data and performance issues
• Mentor junior team members where required

• Strong ETL experience with Pentaho, Talend
• Data virtualisation experience using Denodo for data analytics and reporting
• Strong data modelling skills
• Hands‑on AWS experience building, integrating, or supporting data solutions in the cloud
• Experience with Dev Ops tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum ways of working
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills

• Experience leading data initiatives or technical work streams
• Agile, Dev Ops, or data platform certifications