Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer within the North East Combined Authority’s Technology and Transformation team, you’ll play a central role in shaping a modern, reliable, and scalable data platform that underpins decision-making across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to unlock the value of diverse data assets, enabling better insights, more effective service delivery, and stronger strategic planning. Your work will ensure that high-quality, trusted, and accessible data is consistently available to colleagues, partners, and leaders.

In this role, you will lead on designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and integration solutions that bring together data from a wide range of internal and external systems. You’ll work closely with stakeholders from across the organisation—including senior leaders, analysts, architects, and external partners—to understand business challenges, improve data quality, and ensure data flows smoothly from source systems into our core platform. From automating manual data flows to creating reusable datasets and visualisations, you will help transform how the North East CA uses data to inform real-world priorities.

You will also drive forward major data engineering projects, setting technical standards, applying rigorous quality controls, and championing best practice in data governance, security, and sharing. This includes contributing to our data strategy, developing data management and quality frameworks, and helping to establish master data and metadata capabilities across the organisation. By exploring and adopting innovative technologies and modern engineering approaches, you will play a key role in ensuring the North East CA remains at the forefront of data innovation and insight.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, communities and experiences. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in senior roles, including women, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

If you would like an informal discussion, or further information about this role please contact:

Marcus Rees Harris, Head of Technology and Transformation by email:

Closing date for applications: Thursday 5th February 2026 at 23:59.

For further information about the North East Combined Authority please see the authority’s website www.northeast-ca.gov.uk.

This recruitment is being administered by Durham County Council on behalf of the North East Combined.