Data Engineering Jobs

Palantir Technologies · New York, United States · US$10,000 pm

Forward Deployed Software Engineers embed directly with customers, from factory floors to board rooms, to understand their hardest problems and build data-driven solutions. The role involves architecting custom applications, wrangling massive-scale data, and applying AI to critical operations, with up to 25% travel to client sites.

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.

Databricks · London

Expert-level technical leader owning the most complex enterprise customer engagements, driving consumption strategy and executive relationships as the definitive technical authority. Leads multi-workload platform architectures, real-time systems and AI/ML at scale, mentors junior architects, and orchestrates cross-functional teams. Requires deep Databricks, Python, SQL and Spark expertise with a declared technical specialisation.

Databricks · United Kingdom

Owns and grows Databricks' public sector business across the Republic of Ireland and Scotland, inheriting an established book of strategic government accounts. Runs a consumption-led sales motion, building an Ireland-wide go-to-market plan, expanding platform usage, and pursuing net-new departments and agencies with cloud and partner co-sell teams.

Mason Frank International · London · £90,000 – £95,000 pa

Lead the design and implementation of Salesforce Data Cloud and Agentforce solutions for enterprise-scale transformation programmes. Define scalable data models, integration strategies and architecture frameworks, run discovery through deployment, and guide technical teams and senior stakeholders. Requires hands-on Agentforce, SQL and data-warehouse experience plus team leadership.

Matillion · Manchester

Lead technical architecture and design for the Maia AI team, building agentic AI systems, tools and integrations while using evals to validate performance as models evolve. Mentor engineers, shape strategy with the Product Manager and Data Science team, and work with Java, AWS distributed systems and optionally React, TypeScript and Langchain/Langgraph.

Matillion · Hyderabad, India

You'll work in a small cross-functional team writing, testing and releasing new features and fixing problems across Matillion's data automation products, from design through CI/CD deployment to ongoing production support. The stack spans Java, Spring microservices, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS, with code reviews, research projects and mentoring built into the role.

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.

Spencer Rose · Manchester · £450 – £480 pd

Define and govern end-to-end architecture for large-scale data migration solutions at a banking client, producing HLDs, architecture decision records and migration patterns. Provide design oversight to Data Engineers and Software Engineers while aligning with enterprise, security and data governance standards. Requires on-site presence two days a week in Manchester.

Holt Executive · London

Hands-on full-stack role building data-driven applications, cloud platforms and AI-enabled tools. Day to day involves Python and TypeScript development, AWS services, Terraform, CI/CD and integrating LLM features, within a small collaborative team that contributes to technical design decisions.

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.

Elastic · United Kingdom

Owns the production improvement loop for a knowledge layer that AI agents use to work with enterprise data in Elasticsearch, covering extraction automations, retrieval tools and memory. Writes production TypeScript, designs telemetry and evaluation for agent traces, tool calls and retrieval, and sets the technical bar for safe iteration on agentic behaviour alongside data scientists, backend engineers, product and UX.

Elastic · United Kingdom

Join the Elasticsearch core team to build foundational infrastructure and shared functionality, including services, settings, scripting, and serverless orchestration. You'll design horizontally-scalable APIs, tackle concurrency and performance issues, and improve observability while leading cross-team projects in an open-source, distributed environment.

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.

Opus Recruitment Solutions · London · £500 – £550 pd

Design, build and support scalable data solutions on Azure Databricks, developing SQL, PySpark and Python pipelines and maintaining ETL/ELT flows across Azure, SQL Server and Delta Lake. The role also covers Lakeflow pipelines, Unity Catalog, CI/CD automation and production troubleshooting within a growing data team.