Data Engineering Jobs

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £80,000 – £100,000 pa

Builds internal AI agents, tools and prototypes within a small central technical team, turning complex group data into usable products. Work spans Python, TypeScript and SQL, modernising legacy systems, wrapping them in scalable APIs and generating tests and migration tooling. High autonomy with weekly demonstrable output.

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

Own enterprise and project-level data architecture for a UK health-sector regulator, driving data modelling, governance and lineage across a Microsoft stack including Azure, Fabric and D365. Work with engineering, governance and business teams to deliver scalable data solutions and champion best practice.

Matillion · Central USA · US$107,500 – US$150,000 pa

Owns the full enterprise sales cycle, from self-sourced pipeline through closing six-figure deals and onboarding new customers. Partners with SDR, marketing, channel and solution architecture teams to build territory strategy, while using MEDDIC or value-selling methods to translate technical challenges into business value.

ClickHouse · United Kingdom

Builds and operates a cloud-native database platform on public cloud, working on an in-house Kubernetes operator, metrics pipelines and highly available distributed infrastructure. Partners closely with the core database and data plane teams, with production on-call responsibilities.

ClickHouse · United Kingdom

Builds and operates the foundational cloud data plane for a managed analytics database, covering compute, networking, security and multi-cloud, multi-region architecture. Day to day involves infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, service mesh (Envoy/Istio), routing and traffic work, plus security tooling like firewalls, PKI and zero-trust networking, in close partnership with core database and security teams.

Matillion · Manchester · £84,160 – £126,240 pa

Owns complex Maia rollouts end to end, running discovery, architecting multi-cloud deployments and writing production-grade code, including modifying Matillion's own product codebase where features are missing. Acts as a cross-functional escalation point across Sales, Product and Customer Success, mentors junior FDEs and works agentic-first with AI tools.

Palantir Technologies · London

Builds the tools and interfaces within Palantir Foundry that let users create data-intensive applications, working with TypeScript, React and GraphQL. Involves architecting state management and access patterns, owning frontend APIs and schemas, and iterating with users and designers. May include a Frontline rotation embedded with customers.

Palantir Technologies · London

Builds the lowest layers of Palantir's Foundry and Gotham platforms, spanning database technologies, distributed systems, large-scale data, security and application infrastructure. Work includes designing opinionated APIs, tracing performance in high-scale microservice architectures, and automating systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Kafka.

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.

Grafana Labs · United Kingdom · £103,958 – £124,750 pa

Backend-focused role on the Grafana Alerting squad, working at the core of the open-source Grafana project and the SLOs product. Engineers design, build and operate distributed systems that scale Prometheus-based alert ingestion, evaluation and delivery, including systems reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production, with on-call ownership and mentoring duties.

Grafana Labs · United Kingdom · £103,958 – £124,750 pa

Builds and operates multi-tenant SaaS databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure, writing production code and automation to make them self-healing and scalable. Owns the SLO framework, leads incident response and customer bridge calls for highest-SLA customers, and sets technical direction across squads. Includes weekday 12-hour on-call shifts and a weekend rotation roughly every six to eight weeks.

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.