Data Engineer

Cloud Data Engineer (Python)

Up to £54,150 per annum + excellent pension | Hybrid working | London, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh or Darlington

Are you an experienced Data or Software Engineer with hands‑on experience of:

Python and end to end Cloud deployment, looking for a role where your work can make a real difference?

Our Government client is looking for a Data Engineer to join its Data, Technology and Insights (DTI) unit on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract.

You’ll join a multidisciplinary team of data engineers, data scientists, technologists, behavioural scientists and digital forensics experts, working on data processing and analytical projects for both internal team and user‑initiated projects.

This is a hands‑on role where you’ll spend most of your time designing, building and maintaining data solutions, with plenty of opportunity for learning and professional development.

The Role

• As a Data Engineer, you’ll help build and operate reliable, scalable data infrastructure and pipelines across an AWS cloud environment. Producing high-quality code in Python (and other languages, as needed). • Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform and process large and complex datasets. • Develop automated web scraping and bulk data acquisition workflows. • Implement data transformation, validation, testing and quality controls to ensure datasets are reliable, reproducible and ready for analysis. • Build and maintain containerised data…