Data Engineering Jobs

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £150,000 – £180,000 pa

Executive role owning the data vision for a private equity-backed financial services firm, leading a large-scale transformation of its data and analytics function. Responsibilities span reshaping the operating model, building a modern cloud data platform with lake and warehousing capabilities, and driving data engineering, governance and self-service analytics. Also involves applying AI to engineering productivity and improving customer onboarding and personalisation.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £75,000 – £85,000 pa

Owns the infrastructure, deployment and operational excellence of production machine learning systems within a growing AI function. Builds ML orchestration pipelines with Dagster, Airflow or Prefect, runs Kubernetes and Terraform/Bicep infrastructure, and maintains CI/CD and observability for models and LLM-powered services. Works closely with data scientists, engineers and client-facing teams, and influences platform standards.

Palantir Technologies · London

Build, operate and maintain high-performance, scalable services across Palantir's platforms and government deployments, handling monitoring, configuration management, upgrades and migrations. Debug and optimise production infrastructure, automate manual workflows, and share on-call responsibility for critical systems, coding in Java, Python, Go or similar.

Noir · Leeds · £60,000 – £75,000 pa

Design and implement robust data pipelines and configure Quantexa components while leading the technical development of Quantexa-based solutions for established clients. Work with Spark, Scala and Python Databricks, with exposure to DevOps and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker and Kubernetes. Hybrid role based in Leeds supporting client data engineering and integration engagements.

Palantir Technologies · Sydney, Australia

Forward Deployed Software Engineers embed with government customers to understand open-ended problems and build data-driven solutions, spanning architecture discussions, large-scale data wrangling, custom web apps and executive briefings. Interns work in small teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end delivery of high-stakes projects, using languages such as Python, Java, C++ or TypeScript.

Pontoon · Chester

Hands-on engineering role building and maintaining scalable data platforms for compliance assurance in a regulated enterprise. Owns the end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingesting source systems through streaming, processing and storage to automated reconciliation and data-quality controls. Developer-led, with Python, PySpark, Kafka and NiFi at its core.

Tenth Revolution Group · Berkshire · £55,000 – £61,000 pa

Hands-on role modernising a legacy reporting environment and shaping a cloud-native analytics platform, with ownership of critical reporting platforms and business-facing data products. Requires production experience with Azure Databricks and the wider Azure stack, plus strong stakeholder management within business and technology transformation programmes.

Lorien · London

Owns data products end to end, from discovery and prototyping through launch and adoption, working with stakeholders to turn ambiguous business problems into measurable product objectives. Builds working proofs of concept using SQL, Python, Databricks, Power BI, AI tooling and low-code platforms, then partners with data engineers and architects to industrialise them. Requires commercial insurance or broking domain experience and familiarity with data mesh, data contracts and governance.

Reed · Edinburgh · £70,000 – £83,500 pa

Lead the creation of an enterprise data architecture practice from scratch, assessing a fragmented data landscape and building a scalable roadmap, models and governance standards. Hands-on role in the Microsoft ecosystem (Azure, Microsoft Fabric), designing pipelines and proof-of-concepts while guiding data engineers and analysts. Works with business and technical stakeholders in a regulated public sector setting.

Wesleyan · Birmingham · £49,800 – £72,000 pa

Lead project data architect role within a four-person data architecture team, ensuring centre-of-excellence objectives run through projects across all business units. Involves designing data architecture, modelling and master data solutions, enabling integration via APIs, GraphQL, JSON and XML, and building cloud-based platforms with Azure, SQL, Python and Databricks.

Interface Recruitment · Leeds

Lead the design, build and optimisation of scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting analytics, reporting, AI and machine learning in a regulated asset management environment. Sets data engineering standards, mentors engineers, and ensures solutions meet security, governance, quality and resilience requirements while partnering with risk, technology and business teams.

Cathcart Technology · Edinburgh · £500 – £525 pd

Owns the end-to-end data architecture for a major ERP transformation, leading migration design, governance, master data and reporting while challenging vendor designs. Works with senior tech leaders and implementation partners from build through to go-live, requiring deep ERP data migration and MDM expertise.

Exalto Consulting · Bradford

Design and build end-to-end ETL/ELT solutions on Microsoft Fabric, including Dataflow Gen2 pipelines, Fabric Notebooks and Lakehouse with Medallion architecture. Work with SQL, Python, Spark SQL and Delta Lake, integrating APIs, databases, CRM and ERP sources, plus CI/CD, monitoring and data quality. Collaborate with Data Architects and BI teams on a modern platform supporting analytics, AI and operational use cases.

Circle Recruitment · Leeds · £100,000 – £120,000 pa

Lead a law firm's enterprise, technology and data architecture, owning principles, standards, roadmaps and design governance. Shape strategy, security and responsible AI adoption while managing Solutions Architects, Consultants and Data Architects, with two days a week in the Leeds office.

Circle Recruitment · Dudley · £65,000 – £85,000 pa

Technical owner of a Microsoft Fabric data platform, building and maintaining data lakes, pipelines and ETL/ELT processes from APIs, flat files and ERP systems. Works with Finance, Commercial and BI teams to deliver scalable reporting while bringing data engineering knowledge in-house during a major Fabric migration.