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.

Tenth Revolution Group · West Midlands (Region) · £45,000 pa

Maintains and develops data pipelines and models that support business-critical reporting, ensuring data is accurate, documented and accessible. Works in a small cross-functional team reporting to the Head of IT, partnering with sales, marketing and operations on data questions and quality standards. Uses SQL, Git, dbt, Python and cloud data warehouses.

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.

Palantir Technologies · London

Backend engineers on Palantir's infrastructure teams build the lowest layers of the software stack, including database technologies, distributed systems, large-scale data systems, security and application infrastructure. Day-to-day work spans high-quality code for Foundry and Gotham, open-source data processing libraries, container orchestration, and opinionated APIs, using Java, Rust, Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark and Kubernetes.

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

Builds, operates and maintains high-performance, scalable services across Palantir platforms and government deployments, handling monitoring, configuration management, upgrades and migrations. Combines software development with production ownership, automating manual workflows and troubleshooting issues on an on-call rotation, using Java, Go, Python or similar and Foundry/Apollo tooling.

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.

eFinancialCareers · London · £45,000 – £70,000 pa

Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms on AWS, working with data architects, scientists and analysts to turn complex data into reliable, accessible information. Combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, shaping data solutions and guiding delivery across national security, government and public-sector environments.

Avanti Recruitment · Manchester · £60,000 – £100,000 pa

End-to-end data architecture role owning the full data lifecycle, from ingestion to consumption, across secure client environments. Involves designing lakehouse and medallion architectures, defining batch and streaming pipelines, and making decisions on storage, orchestration, governance and security. Cloud-agnostic, working with AWS, Azure or GCP alongside Databricks, Snowflake, Spark and Kafka.

Opus Recruitment Solutions · London · £500 – £525 pd

Hands-on contract role migrating a large legacy ETL estate of several thousand Ab Initio batch jobs to a serverless AWS data platform. You'll define migration patterns, convert Ab Initio transformations into scalable PySpark, and deliver production-ready AWS Glue solutions, with heavy Spark performance tuning across S3, Athena and serverless pipelines in a financial services cloud transformation programme.

Robert Walters · Nottingham · £50,000 – £60,000 pa

Builds and maintains data pipelines, ETL processes and structured data warehouses, integrating information from multiple sources and running strict data quality checks. Works with SQL, Python, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Logic Apps and Synapse Analytics in a hybrid Nottingham team.

eFinancialCareers · London

Lead the strategy, architecture and hands-on engineering of a cross-asset market data platform spanning crypto and traditional markets, including a central Market Data API, low-latency feed handlers and a firm-wide messaging layer. Manage a small development team while owning vendor relationships, data quality, cost control and regulatory entitlements across a hybrid on-premise and cloud environment.

Ashdown Group · London · £120,000 – £150,000 pa

Owns the enterprise data architecture, engineering strategy and cloud data platform, setting the technical roadmap and leading a data engineering function. Drives DataOps, CI/CD, observability and governance while building foundations for AI/ML, vector search and advanced analytics, partnering with Product, Data Science and senior leadership.

Cedar · London · £65,000 – £70,000 pa

Hands-on role acting as OneStream SME, supporting system development, optimisation and governance, and contributing to implementation projects from a Finance perspective. Works across OneStream, NetSuite, Databricks, Navan and Power BI, covering consolidation, reporting, planning, data mapping, reconciliation and master data. Suits a qualified accountant combining Finance, Systems, Data and Transformation in a PE-backed business.