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 · Leeds · £50,000 pa

First dedicated data engineering hire in a growing data function, designing and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and integrating internal and external sources including APIs. Builds and optimises data models for analytics and customer insight, working in cloud environments and helping evolve Microsoft Fabric capabilities alongside data science and analytics teams.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £60,000 – £75,000 pa

Lead the design and delivery of greenfield data engineering projects from concept to production, building pipelines, transformations and orchestration workflows on modern cloud data platforms. The role offers genuine ownership, acting as technical point of contact for stakeholders and clients, within a fully remote team across the UK and Ireland.

Salt Search · London · £70,000 – £100,000 pa

Administer, maintain and optimise Linux server environments across production and development platforms, managing VMware vSphere/ESXi infrastructure and building automation with Ansible and Bash. The role sits in a specialist security team supporting a secure, large-scale big data platform for a UK critical national infrastructure programme, using DevOps methodologies to deliver continuous improvements. It is predominantly on-site and requires active DV clearance.

Salt Search · Reading · £70,000 – £100,000 pa

Administer, maintain and optimise Linux server environments across production and development platforms, managing VMware vSphere/ESXi infrastructure and building automation with Ansible and Bash. The role supports a secure, large-scale big data platform for a UK critical national infrastructure programme, working within a specialist security team using DevOps and CI/CD methodologies.

VIQU IT Recruitment · Solihull · £65,000 – £70,000 pa

Owns the roadmap and lifecycle for certified data products such as datasets, dashboards, semantic models and AI-enabled features, leading a team of Data Analysts and BI Developers. Acts as the bridge between technical delivery and business stakeholders, embedding a federated data-mesh operating model and driving data literacy and adoption across the organisation.

eFinancialCareers · London · £120,000 pa

Builds core trade lifecycle, settlement, finance systems and regulatory reporting platforms for an investments client, replacing manual and batch processes with an event-driven, real-time architecture. Works across Java, Python, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL and AWS microservices, with genuine influence over design decisions in a growing team.

R3vamp · Milton Keynes

Designs and maintains Power BI dashboards, semantic models and reporting solutions for Finance & Controlling, using DAX, SQL and Azure technologies. Supports migration of legacy Cognos reports, promotes data governance and quality, trains end users and mentors a Data Apprentice within an Agile BI team.

ASDA · Leeds

Lead end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise-scale data initiatives at a major UK retailer, translating business requirements into high-level designs, data flows and reusable architecture patterns. Work across cloud platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, partnering with engineering, product and business teams and presenting at Design Authority forums.

Isio · Birmingham

Owns the database architecture for Isio's central data warehouses and connected operational systems, covering schema design, indexing, query tuning and ETL/ELT pipeline architecture. Sits in the Development team, working with system administrators, data architects and infrastructure to enforce backup, recovery, security and change-control standards aligned to ISO27001 and ISO22301. Hybrid role based ideally in the Birmingham city centre office, with other Isio locations considered.

eFinancialCareers · London

Builds and supports an enterprise data platform primarily on MS SQL Server with .NET services, writing Python and SQL stored procedures, functions and scripts. Works on ETL development with SSIS and SSAS, dimensional data modelling, and dashboards in Streamlit, Power BI or Tableau, supporting Operations, Risk and Finance. Mix of maintaining existing systems and greenfield data projects, with AI tooling used daily.

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.

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.