Data Engineering Jobs

Palantir Technologies · London

Backend engineers on Palantir's infrastructure teams build the lowest layers of the software stack, spanning database technologies, distributed systems, large-scale data, security and application infrastructure. Day-to-day work includes designing opinionated APIs, tracing performance in high-scale microservice architectures, and automating systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Kafka using Java, Rust and Go.

Palantir Technologies · New York, United States · US$135,000 – US$200,000 pa

Owns reliability and operations for Palantir's production software and infrastructure, handling monitoring, alerting, configuration management, upgrades and deployments across many environments. Automates manual workflows and runbooks, debugs and optimises large-scale distributed systems, and participates in an on-call support rotation. Works closely with forward deployed and product teams on systems design, using Java, Go, Python, JavaScript and LLM/AI tooling.

Matillion · Manchester · £76,000 – £114,000 pa

Owns a core area of an AI agent for data engineering end to end, defining problems, prioritising trade-offs and driving measurable impact. Builds evals to hold agentic behaviour to a high bar, reasons with Engineering about models, context, MCP and orchestration, and partners with Design and GTM. Uses AI tools actively across research, synthesis, prototyping and analysis.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · Newcastle upon Tyne · £84,000 pa

Own and oversee a business-critical enterprise data platform built on Microsoft Azure, acting as technical lead for architecture, scalability, governance and operational excellence. Work with Infrastructure, Security and Architecture teams on CI/CD, automation, monitoring and Infrastructure-as-Code, supporting production and incident management while enabling Data Engineers and shaping platform strategy across Data and AI initiatives.

Protein Works · Liverpool

Own the transformation layer in Dataform end to end, building models, tests and documentation between raw BigQuery data and business reporting. Build the semantic layer giving revenue, margin, customer and order one shared definition, and own Looker Studio reporting from executive dashboards to self-serve datasets. One of two engineering hires into the BI team, shaping safe self-serve AI analytics.

eFinancialCareers · London · £1,100 – £1,200 pd

Hands-on KDB+/q engineering role in a front-office technology team supporting electronic trading across Fixed Income markets. You will build real-time pricing, trading and risk applications, maintain data pipelines and APIs, and work directly with traders and quants on high-performance time-series platforms, including production support and releases.

ARC IT Recruitment · London · £40,000 – £48,000 pa

Sits in the IT Business Applications team supporting well-known vendor platforms for a private equity business, handling 1st and 2nd line support, incident resolution and escalations. Runs ITIL incident, problem, change and release management in ServiceNow, working with vendors, developers and an outsourced infrastructure provider. Also involved in an upcoming roadmap covering AI tools and a new data platform.

eFinancialCareers · London

Designs, builds and optimises a petabyte-scale data platform and Data Lake using cloud-native AWS tooling such as S3, EKS, Glue, Airflow, Trino, Parquet and Redshift, with Apache Iceberg adoption planned. The role sits in a flat-structured Data Services team supporting trading users, combining data engineering, DevOps and CI/CD automation on Linux/Unix infrastructure.