Data Engineering Jobs

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · Hounslow · £100,000 – £110,000 pa

Lead enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives, combining hands-on technical leadership with mentoring Data and Senior Data Engineers. Drive design, build and operation of secure, scalable data pipelines and products, define engineering standards and automated testing, and improve platform reliability, observability and cost efficiency. Includes participation in an on-call rota supporting business-critical data products.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £110,000 pa

Lead technical direction across a modern cloud data platform built on AWS, Snowflake and dbt, staying hands-on while unblocking engineers on complex issues. Combines mentoring a team of engineers with influencing senior stakeholders and shaping engineering standards in a federated data model.

Palantir Technologies · Kitsap, WA · US$135,000 – US$200,000 pa

Forward Deployed Software Engineers embed with government customers to scope and build data-driven solutions, often starting from open-ended operational questions. The role spans architecture discussions, large-scale data wrangling, custom web app coding and executive briefings, with end-to-end ownership in small, lightly supervised teams.

Adria Solutions · Manchester · £70,000 – £90,000 pa

Hands-on lead role owning an existing data estate and building a modern, scalable platform supporting BI, Data Science and Applied AI. Involves modernising SQL Server, SSIS and Power BI, developing batch and real-time processing, lakehouse architecture on AWS, and line-managing a small team of Data Engineers.

Tenth Revolution Group · Reading · £60,000 pa

Hands-on role building and evolving scalable data pipelines on a Microsoft-based platform, using Databricks, SQL, Python and PySpark. Covers ETL, data integration, transformations, data warehousing and SQL performance, working with technology and business teams to turn requirements into reliable data solutions.

Tenth Revolution Group · Oxford · £50,000 – £60,000 pa

Hands-on role building and maintaining scalable data pipelines on Databricks, integrating new sources and optimising ETL and transformation processes. You will develop SQL and Python/PySpark transformations, tune queries, stored procedures and database objects, and help mature a modern Microsoft data platform within a Data & Innovation team, contributing to CI/CD and Git practices.

VIQU IT Recruitment · London · £100,000 – £110,000 pa

Lead large-scale data transformation programmes for an insurance organisation, owning the roadmap from planning through delivery and supporting adoption of an Enterprise Data Platform. Work across business, IT and data teams to define requirements, track value from data and AI initiatives, and manage risks, budgets and governance. Hybrid role with three days per week in a London office.

Gleeson Recruitment Group · Coventry · £38,000 pa

Build and maintain ETL/data pipelines, improve data quality and deliver reliable reporting and insights for a retail business investing in its data function. Work with Python, SQL and Excel, with data modelling and database design, in a collaborative team. Azure, Power BI and Git/Azure DevOps are nice to have.

Palantir Technologies · London

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 complex distributed systems, including an on-call support rotation.

Datatech · London · £80,000 – £90,000 pa

Build and lead a new data engineering function at a scaling AI-powered SaaS business, owning engineering standards, tooling and delivery practices. Stay hands-on with SQL transformation pipelines, Python orchestration, data modelling, CI/CD and production reliability, while line-managing and developing engineers and integrating AI outputs into production pipelines.

SoCode · London · £100,000 – £130,000 pa

Take technical ownership of a large-scale analytical data platform, leading architecture, performance and cost optimisation of multi-tenant ClickHouse/OLAP systems. Build automation, observability and capacity management, shape a secure Data-as-a-Service offering and the data foundations for agentic AI, while mentoring and line-managing a small team hands-on.

Syntax Consultancy · Leeds · £60,000 – £65,000 pa

Hands-on Data Engineer maintaining production data pipelines on Databricks and AWS, combining L2/L3 production support with engineering work. Responsibilities include incident investigation, root cause analysis, remediation, and performance troubleshooting across Spark, Delta Lake, and AWS services. Part of a large-scale Government project, working primarily from home with occasional Leeds office travel.

Vermelo RPO · Salford

Senior technical authority for a Databricks Lakehouse platform, defining engineering standards, architecture and best practices across the enterprise data ecosystem. Leads design and delivery of scalable data products using Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Azure Data Services, and provides technical leadership, coaching and mentoring across multiple squads. Hybrid role requiring two days a week in Manchester, Stoke or Peterborough.

Morson Edge · Heathrow, United States · £625 – £650 pd

Lead data and AI engineering work for a major airline, focused on AWS, Snowflake and CI/CD pipelines. The role is inside IR35 and requires one to two days per week on-site at Heathrow, with the remainder likely remote.

Amplius · Peterborough · £53,560 pa

Lead enterprise data governance across a large housing provider, chairing the Data & Metrics Council and building a Data Steward Network. Hands-on role covering MDM (matching, survivorship, golden records), data catalogue, glossary, lineage and quality scorecards, plus privacy and audit compliance. Sole owner driving practical implementation rather than policy writing alone.