Data Engineer
Summary
A hands-on data engineering role at a UK local government council: designing and operating a modern data platform, building reliable pipelines and integrations, automating data flows, improving data quality, and driving data governance, metadata, and reusable datasets to support decision-making.
In this role you will help design and operate a modern, reliable data platform that underpins decision-making across the organisation. You will collaborate with senior leaders, analysts and partners to improve data quality, automate data flows, and create reusable datasets and visualisations. The work includes driving data governance and developing data management capabilities to support strategic planning. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering practical data solutions at scale within a public sector context.
Pay / Benefits- flexible working
- inclusive employer
- Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines and integration solutions
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business challenges into reusable data solutions
- Improve data quality and ensure data flows from source systems into the core platform
- Automate manual data flows and develop reusable datasets and visualisations
- Drive major data engineering projects and set technical standards
- Contribute to data strategy, governance, and metadata/master data capabilities
- Champion best practices in data governance, security and sharing
- Explore innovative technologies and modern engineering approaches
- Role involves hands-on development across the data platform project lifecycle
- Strong data engineering capability
- Experience in designing reliable pipelines and integrations
- Ability to translate business challenges into data solutions
- Experience with data governance and quality controls
- Stakeholder engagement across senior leaders, analysts, architects and partners
- Hands-on engineering mindset with ability to work across teams
- collaborative
- stakeholder management
- communication
- data pipelines
- data integration
- data governance
