Data Engineering Jobs

ClickHouse · United Kingdom

Owns reliability, availability and scalability of ClickHouse Cloud, building SLOs/SLAs, monitoring and alerting across data plane, control plane and core. Leads incident response, blameless post-mortems and chaos engineering, and develops Go/Python tooling to improve operational efficiency. Works across engineering, security, support and operations teams, with on-call responsibilities.

Fuel Recruitment · Farnborough · £550 – £600 pd

Build and optimise cloud-based data integration and analytics solutions for a defence-sector client, focusing on scalable ETL pipelines, data lakes and processing frameworks in AWS. Day-to-day work centres on AWS Glue jobs using PySpark and Python, Glue Data Catalog, crawlers, workflows and triggers, plus S3 data lake management and IAM security. Three roles, outside IR35, with three days a week onsite.

Bright Purple · Edinburgh · £500 – £550 pd

Defines and governs the end-to-end data architecture for a major COINS ERP transformation, owning complex data migration, mapping, cleansing and reconciliation. Establishes master data, stewardship, lineage and data quality controls, and assures vendor data models and migration designs through rehearsals, cutover and deployment.

Pontoon · Chester

Hands-on engineering role building and maintaining scalable data platforms for compliance assurance in a regulated enterprise. Owns the end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingesting source systems through streaming, processing and storage to automated reconciliation and data-quality controls. Developer-led, with Python, PySpark, Kafka and NiFi at its core.

Lorien · London

Owns data products end to end, from discovery and prototyping through launch and adoption, working with stakeholders to turn ambiguous business problems into measurable product objectives. Builds working proofs of concept using SQL, Python, Databricks, Power BI, AI tooling and low-code platforms, then partners with data engineers and architects to industrialise them. Requires commercial insurance or broking domain experience and familiarity with data mesh, data contracts and governance.

Reed · Edinburgh · £70,000 – £83,500 pa

Lead the creation of an enterprise data architecture practice from scratch, assessing a fragmented data landscape and building a scalable roadmap, models and governance standards. Hands-on role in the Microsoft ecosystem (Azure, Microsoft Fabric), designing pipelines and proof-of-concepts while guiding data engineers and analysts. Works with business and technical stakeholders in a regulated public sector setting.

Wesleyan · Birmingham · £49,800 – £72,000 pa

Lead project data architect role within a four-person data architecture team, ensuring centre-of-excellence objectives run through projects across all business units. Involves designing data architecture, modelling and master data solutions, enabling integration via APIs, GraphQL, JSON and XML, and building cloud-based platforms with Azure, SQL, Python and Databricks.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £100,000 – £120,000 pa

Hands-on data engineering lead designing scalable, AI-ready data platforms and architectures across an investment firm's portfolio. Combines building end-to-end infrastructure in SQL and Python with advising C-suite teams on data strategy, prioritisation and commercial impact, working tech-agnostically across varied environments.

Cathcart Technology · Edinburgh · £500 – £525 pd

Owns the end-to-end data architecture for a major ERP transformation, leading migration design, governance, master data and reporting while challenging vendor designs. Works with senior tech leaders and implementation partners from build through to go-live, requiring deep ERP data migration and MDM expertise.

Dns Info Ltd · London · £350 – £450 pd

Day-to-day work centres on designing and maintaining data warehousing and data modelling solutions — star, snowflake and data vault patterns — plus producing data dictionaries and models managed through Bitbucket and Liquibase deployments. The role sits with a banking and trade management focus, covering vanilla macro, credit and securitisation products, and requires AI-driven development alongside Sybase, Oracle, Postgres, some Python and basic AWS.

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.

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.

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.

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.