Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer
UK-Based | Hybrid Working
SC Clearable Required
Permanent
Meraki are working on behalf of a high-growth digital consultancy delivering mission-critical data platforms across the UK public sector.
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and operate modern data pipelines and analytics platforms that power secure, large-scale digital services.
This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role within multidisciplinary agile teams. You’ll play a key part in enabling organisations to collect, process and use data effectively — supporting operational reporting, analytics and meaningful insight across complex environments.
This role would suit someone who enjoys solving well-defined problems independently, applying strong engineering judgement, and contributing to continuous platform improvement — rather than being tied to one specific technology stack or cloud vendor.
The Role
You will:

• Design, build and maintain reliable data pipelines to ingest, transform and serve data from multiple sources
  
• Develop analytics-ready data models to support reporting and operational insight
  
• Support the full data lifecycle (retention, archiving, decommissioning) in line with governance requirements
  
• Apply data quality, testing and monitoring best practices
  
• Translate user and business needs into practical, well-engineered data solutions
  
• Contribute to shared data standards, documentation and data dictionaries
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams to drive improved data outcomes
  Technical Experience
  You’ll bring strong commercial experience across several of the following:
  
• Modern data engineering patterns (batch and event-driven pipelines)
  
• Strong SQL and at least one data-focused programming language (e.g. Python)
  
• Data integration, transformation and orchestration tooling
  
• Analytical data platforms (data warehouses, lakehouse architectures)
  
• Applying DevOps and software engineering practices to data (CI/CD, version control, automated testing)
  
• Working across cloud platforms in a vendor-agnostic way
  
• Contributing to open-source tooling where appropriate
  What We’re Looking For
  
• Operates confidently at senior level
  
• Comfortable working independently within defined delivery scopes
  
• Strong communicator — able to explain data concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  
• Collaborative, pragmatic and delivery-focused
  
• Comfortable in customer-facing environments
  
• Understands secure-by-design and government data principles
  Security Clearance
  Due to the nature of the work, candidates must:
  
• Be eligible for SC Clearance
  
• Have lived continuously in the UK for the past 5+ years
  
• Have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship
  What’s on Offer
  Competitive salary with annual review
  Employer pension contribution starting at 5%, increasing with tenure
  Group life assurance
  Genuine hybrid working + home setup allowance
  25 days annual leave + bank holidays (with buy/sell option)
  Fully funded professional certifications (AWS, GCP, Agile etc.)
  5 days paid study leave + £500 annual personal development fund
  1-2-1 coaching and structured career progression
  Private medical insurance
  Cycle to Work scheme
  2 paid volunteering days per year
  Inclusive Hiring
  We strongly encourage applications from individuals who may not meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by the opportunity but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you