Data Engineering Jobs

Opus Recruitment Solutions · Liverpool · £400 – £500 pd

Hands-on role migrating an established reporting estate into a modern Microsoft Fabric environment, covering data ingestion pipelines, data modelling and semantic layer design. You will also build Power BI reports, optimise SQL and ETL processes, and coach analysts and report developers on new tools and best practices.

Spectrum IT Recruitment · Southampton · £80,000 – £100,000 pa

Hands-on technical leadership role guiding a 10+ developer squad through solution design, system architecture and domain modelling, while still writing production code across the full stack. Work spans Node.js microservices, TypeScript, Vue.js, Redis, SQL Server, Snowflake and AWS with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, including building proof-of-concepts and supporting live systems.

Artis Recruitment · Bristol · £80,000 – £85,000 pa

Lead a team of data engineers while staying hands-on with complex data challenges, providing technical direction and coaching. Drive the migration and modernisation of legacy platforms into a Databricks lakehouse environment, building pipelines, models and curated datasets, and championing engineering best practice within Agile delivery.

Amtis Professional · Birmingham · £40,000 – £45,000 pa

Builds and develops a central data platform supporting reporting, analytics and emerging AI use cases. Covers the full data lifecycle: ingesting from internal and external sources and APIs, ETL/ELT transformation, data modelling and database design, plus Power BI dashboards. Works in a Microsoft Fabric/Azure stack with SQL, Python and Git in a collaborative team.

J&J Search · Bath · £80,000 – £100,000 pa

Owns the enterprise data strategy and roadmap for a UK wealth management group, defining architecture and leading the technical build of a data warehouse, lake and pipelines. Combines governance, data quality and lineage work with hands-on engineering in Microsoft Fabric and Azure, partnering with the IT Director and senior stakeholders across multiple group businesses.

Vaerdi Recruitment Limited · London · £750 pd

Hands-on lead architecture role shaping data architecture for a major financial services technology programme. Involves designing scalable, distributed data solutions, developing complex data models, and applying Domain-Driven Design, with heavy use of NoSQL technologies, particularly Cassandra. Provides architectural direction while remaining technically hands-on, working closely with technical teams.

Socium Recruitment · Manchester · £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Owns the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap for an established online business, leading a team of ten through a migration from on-prem SQL to Azure. Sets engineering standards across data modelling, pipelines, governance and automated deployments, and makes the calls on tooling, budget and suppliers while reporting into the C-suite. Microsoft Fabric adoption and practical AI use are open questions the role holder will shape.

Head Resourcing · Falkirk · £60,000 – £70,000 pa

Leads data modelling, transformation and governance to turn data into trusted insights for operational and commercial decisions. Builds scalable data solutions using SQL, dbt, Power BI semantic models and a modern cloud platform such as Databricks, while managing stakeholder and vendor relationships to support a five-year data plan.

Palantir Technologies · New York, United States · US$100,000 – US$145,000 pa

Builds and maintains data pipelines, reporting datasets and dashboards that support Recruiting and Hiring Operations, integrating systems such as Lever, Workday and Foundry. Works cross-functionally with recruiters, data, security and privacy partners, moving between pipeline work, integration debugging, documentation and stakeholder enablement.

ClickHouse · United Kingdom

Conduct applied research on open-source database systems like ClickHouse and PostgreSQL, focusing on query optimization, execution engines, distributed systems, indexing, and emerging agentic workloads. Design and evaluate new algorithms and prototypes, analyze production workloads, and work with engineers to ship improvements, with encouragement to publish at venues such as SIGMOD and VLDB.

Palantir Technologies · Washington, United States · US$145,000 – US$200,000 pa

Owns model-serving infrastructure end-to-end, building high-performance inference systems that run across air-gapped government networks, edge nodes and data-sovereign enterprises. Works across the full stack from GPU scheduling and container orchestration to deployment pipelines and observability, using Java, Rust, Python and Go with Docker and Kubernetes.

WeDoTech · London · £100,000 – £140,000 pa

Hands-on Staff-level role leading a large-scale data engineering modernisation, migrating thousands of pipelines across AWS. You'll stay deeply technical in Python, PySpark and Spark, shape scalable frameworks and standards, and champion AI-assisted development across multiple engineering teams.

WeDoTech · London · £800 – £1,000 pd

A hands-on Staff-level role leading a major data estate modernisation for a UK financial services organisation, migrating large-scale pipelines and building new data products. You will shape architecture and engineering patterns while remaining deeply involved in Python, PySpark, Spark, AWS Glue and Airflow, and champion AI-assisted development across multiple teams.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · Nottingham · £60,000 – £65,000 pa

Builds and scales a Microsoft Fabric data platform as the central source of truth for reporting and analytics. Develops Bronze, Silver and Gold architectures, integrates data into Lakehouse environments, and creates pipelines with Python, SQL and PySpark. Works with a Lead Data Engineer and a team spanning engineering, governance and analytics.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · Abingdon · US$200,000 – US$225,000 pa

Builds scalable data platforms, pipelines and ML infrastructure, and deploys production AI solutions including LLMs, RAG systems and AI agents. Works in a small, highly visible team partnering with investment and operational stakeholders, owning projects end-to-end from design through production and driving architecture decisions.