SC Cleared Data Engineer required for secure UK Government programme

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Data Engineer to join a high-performing data engineering team delivering secure, scalable and innovative data solutions across major UK public sector programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity for a SC Cleared Data Engineer to work on complex data platforms, supporting modern digital services and data-driven transformation initiatives.

The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing and optimising data pipelines, ensuring secure and reliable data integration across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines for ingestion, transformation and data curation.
• Develop secure, scalable and high-performance data integration solutions.
• Work with product teams, architects and stakeholders to translate requirements into effective data solutions.
• Support data modelling activities and ensure data quality across platforms.
• Collaborate within Agile, multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices and knowledge sharing.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience working as a Data Engineer within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modelling.
• Hands-on experience with Talend.
• Experience with Pentaho Business Analytics (Pentaho BA).
• Strong knowledge of Oracle databases.
• Experience working with AWS cloud technologies.
• Understanding of modern data engineering principles including:
  • Data ingestion
  • Data transformation
  • Data integration
  • Data orchestration
  • Version control/CI practices