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Data Engineer

Robert Walters
Manchester, United Kingdom
Last week
£55,000 – £60,000 pa
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£55,000 – £60,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
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Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
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Posted
30 Apr 2026 (Last week)
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Data Engineer

Manchester (Hybrid)

£55,000-£60,000

Our client is an established, fast-growing digital business on a mission to transform the way customers access financial products. With a large team of people across multiple locations, the organisation prides itself on an innovative, data-driven culture where teams are empowered to work autonomously, collaborate effectively, and continuously improve.

The environment is energetic, modern, and forward-thinking, with a strong focus on solving complex customer problems and redefining what a seamless digital experience looks like. This is an exciting opportunity to join a business investing heavily in its data capabilities as it continues to scale.

Role Purpose

As a Data Engineer, you will take ownership of the organisation's data platform, covering both SQL Server workloads and a modern cloud-based data ecosystem. You'll ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of data pipelines, enabling high-quality analytics and supporting self-serve visualisation for teams across the business.

This is a hands-on role where you'll help evolve the data architecture, contribute to the development of cloud-based solutions, and play a key part in strengthening data governance, quality, and accessibility.

Data Engineer Responsibilities

  • Data Reliability & Performance
  • Maintain and optimise SQL Server databases hosted on AWS RDS.
  • Troubleshoot SSIS packages and scheduled jobs.
  • Conduct performance tuning, query optimisation, indexing and cost efficiency reviews.
  • Support backup, disaster recovery and high-availability strategies.
  • Ensure high levels of data reliability for operational and reporting systems.
  • Modern Data Platform Development
  • Contribute to the build and enhancement of a data lake / lakehouse architecture.
  • Work with AWS tools such as S3, Glue and Lambda.
  • Develop robust, scalable data pipelines.
  • Prepare clean, structured datasets for visualisation tools (preferably Tableau).
  • Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
  • Partner with Product, Engineering and Analytics teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions.
  • Support data governance, security and quality initiatives.
  • Stay curious and adaptable, especially as AI continues to reshape data engineering practices.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Strong SQL Server expertise (T-SQL, performance tuning, indexing).
  • Experience managing SQL Server environments within AWS RDS.
  • Hands-on SSIS development experience.
  • Proven background in building and maintaining data pipelines.
  • Experience preparing data for BI/visualisation tools (Tableau desirable).
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Knowledge of data warehousing and/or data lake concepts.
  • Any Data DevOps experience (e.g., Terraform, GitHub) would be highly beneficial.

Experience & Behaviours

  • You'll bring experience in a similar data engineering or senior backend engineering role, comfortable working in cloud-based production environments. This role suits someone who takes real ownership-not just of their code, but of platform stability, data quality, and best practice.
  • You should enjoy collaborating with others, sharing knowledge, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement. Curiosity and a desire to explore new approaches, tools and industry trends will set you up for success here.

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