Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location:

National*

Closing Date: 27th February 2026

Interviews:
Technical tests will take place week commencing 9th March 2026. Final interviews will take place week commencing 23rd March 2026

Grade: HEO (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:
National: £35,335 - £37,847

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type:
Permanent

Vacancy number: 14639

* We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

We’re recruiting for a Data Engineer here at the Ministry of Justice, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data & Analytics Engineering professions. This role aligns against Data Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework. This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector.

Data engineers at MoJ play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision‑making. We're looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the Ministry of Justice.

You will work alongside Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, developing analytical pipelines and self‑service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform. A summary of the type of work the teams are involved in can be found in our handbook.

As a Data Engineer your work might involve:

• building robust and scalable automated data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
• re‑engineering manual data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use
• writing ETL (extract, transform, load) scripts and code to ensure the ETL process performs optimally
• working with data users to understand and meet their needs
• using a range of AWS services to deploy your solutions in a reproducible, sustainable manner
• using infrastructure‑as‑code to deploy AWS cloud infrastructure
• developing tools and services that enable people to use data effectively

You may also be expected to carry out the following day‑to‑day activities:

• updating and maintaining technical documentation
• responding to incident reports, ensuring relevant prioritisation and detail to allow for effective investigation
• writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks
• supporting the Ministry of Justice’s Analytical Platform users to use our data and tools
• contributing to team‑building and development initiatives

We welcome applications from anyone with the skills we consider make a good data engineer. You may not currently be in a data engineering role and that's ok. Many of our team members have a background in analysis, software engineering, data science, and more.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!