475 jobs for “data engineer”
Palantir Technologies New York, United States US$135,000 – US$200,000 pa
Works deep inside the data processing infrastructure behind Palantir Foundry, designing query planning and optimization, extending execution engines, and improving operators, parallelism and memory management. Builds on and extends Apache Spark, DataFusion, Comet, Velox and Iceberg, owning changes from design through production with a high bar for correctness and performance.
Palantir Technologies Washington, United States US$135,000 – US$200,000 pa
Builds and evolves APIs powered by Kubernetes controllers, abstracting complex distributed systems so government and vendor developers can deploy microservices into a secure, infrastructure-agnostic runtime. Works with forward-deployed and customer engineers to close product gaps, and champions a long-term roadmap for scalability and reduced operational burden.
eFinancialCareers London
Lead the design and delivery of a mission-critical risk data platform for a financial markets clearing organisation, building batch-processing services for market and historical time-series data. The role is hands-on, owning architecture, engineering standards and complex technical decisions, with strong Java 11+ (17+ preferred) and Spring Boot skills. Works closely with infrastructure, security, DevOps and Quant Risk teams, including production support and an on-call rota.
eFinancialCareers London £200,000 – £500,000 pa
Engineers design and build large-scale distributed systems for quantitative trading and research infrastructure, spanning compute scheduling, storage, real-time event-driven systems, messaging, fault tolerance and state replication. Teams are small with significant ownership, working on petabyte-scale data and HPC/CPU/GPU workloads where performance and reliability gains have immediate measurable impact.
Databricks London
Hands-on technical leader who guides a small team of around five engineers while staying deep in the engineering work, driving architecture, design and code on the hardest problems. The team builds Lakebase, a managed Postgres transactional layer, across areas such as platform reliability, the network proxy data path, or distributed storage in Rust.
dunnhumby London
Owns release-readiness governance for a B2B SaaS platform moving to continuous deployment, defining criteria, evidence standards and decision points. Coordinates tenant configuration, permissions, feature controls, cross-service dependencies, observability and rollback validation across Engineering, Product, Platform, Security and Operations.
Version 1 Newcastle upon Tyne
Lead a team delivering large-scale cloud-based software applications for public and private sector clients, taking technical ownership of design, estimation and delivery. Hands-on with Java, Spring Boot and modern frontend frameworks, while coaching junior engineers and driving agile, secure engineering practices.
Elastic United Kingdom
Consulting architect delivering Elasticsearch and Lucene solutions to UK public sector clients, combining hands-on solution design, data modelling, cluster tuning and proof-of-concept development with strategic stakeholder engagement at senior government levels. Requires existing or obtainable UK security clearance and involves a high percentage of on-site customer work and travel.
Databricks London
Hybrid technical and commercial role acting as post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products for the most complex strategic accounts. You own the technical account strategy and execution plan, driving use cases from win to production, coordinating Solutions Architects, Professional Services and support teams, and reporting on usage, adoption and customer health to a Technical GM.
Coltech Recruitment Edinburgh £400 – £450 pd
Designs end-to-end AI, ML and data architectures on Google Cloud Platform, covering Generative AI, RAG, agentic AI and LLMOps. Works with engineering, data science and security teams to translate business requirements into secure, compliant cloud-native solutions, and leads architecture governance through review committees.
Spectrum IT Recruitment Southampton £80,000 – £100,000 pa
Hands-on technical leadership role guiding a 10+ developer squad through solution design, system architecture and domain modelling, while still writing production code across the full stack. Work spans Node.js microservices, TypeScript, Vue.js, Redis, SQL Server, Snowflake and AWS with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, including building proof-of-concepts and supporting live systems.
Manufacturing Recruitment Ltd Leicester £59,000 – £60,000 pa
Seeking a Cloud FinOps Analyst to collaborate with teams on driving financial accountability, cost transparency, and optimisation across cloud and data platforms. This role plays a pivotal part in shaping and governing the organisation’s cloud financial management practices—ensuring cost efficiency,...
Blackwaters CG Ltd Farnborough £40,000 – £50,000 pa
Lead the development of Business Intelligence capability for an investor-backed business services company, designing enterprise-quality Power BI dashboards, semantic models and self-service reporting. Build Azure-based data pipelines and ETL processes while applying commercial analysis to support pricing, forecasting and growth modelling. The role also involves influencing senior stakeholders and championing data literacy across the organisation.
Elastic United Kingdom
Design and deploy enterprise search solutions using Elastic's AI stack, including RAG, vector search, ELSER and vector databases. Run proof-of-concept projects, evangelise through talks and blog posts, and collaborate with engineers and data scientists. Requires deep semantic search and NLP expertise.
Square One Resources London £700 – £800 pd
Hands-on implementation and SME role supporting the configuration, setup and rollout of Monte Carlo within a wider Aladdin / Snowflake data environment for a global asset manager. The consultant advises delivery teams on configuration and best practice, supports data observability, monitoring and data quality capabilities, troubleshoots issues and provides documentation and knowledge transfer. Distinct in being a practical implementation SME position rather than a traditional Business Analyst or engineering role.
