Data Engineering Jobs

Databricks · London

Founding backend engineer role building the Lakebase managed Postgres transactional layer, spanning control plane, proxy data path, and platform reliability. Work covers large-scale distributed systems, high-throughput connection handling, and AI-powered automation to meet SLIs and SLOs across AWS, GCS, and Azure storage.

Databricks · London

Lead a delivery team of 8+ engineers building and productionising data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform for enterprise customers. Balances people leadership and hiring with hands-on technical oversight of architectures spanning Spark, Python/Scala, AWS/Azure/GCP, CI/CD and MLOps, while driving professional services metrics such as bookings, revenue, margin and CSAT.

Palantir Technologies · New York, United States · US$10,500 pm

Interns in the Production Infrastructure organization contribute production code to platforms like Apollo, Rubix and a Kubernetes-based environment platform spanning hundreds of clusters, plus observability tooling. They own features end to end with a dedicated mentor, working alongside engineers, product managers and deployment teams on infrastructure for government and defense customers.

Palantir Technologies · Washington, United States · US$10,500 pa

Interns on the Production Infrastructure team contribute production code to platforms like Apollo, Rubix and Mission Manager, spanning Kubernetes-based PaaS, fleet-wide deployment tooling and observability systems. Work covers the full product lifecycle with a dedicated mentor, using Java, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Envoy and Grafana, and may involve direct exposure to defense and government customers.

eFinancialCareers · London

Cross-functional delivery role spanning three active teams within a London market insurer, working in a Kanban-based model rather than fixed sprints. Responsibilities include maintaining Azure DevOps boards and dashboards, facilitating stand-ups and backlog reviews, tracking delivery dates, removing blockers, and leading release management including CAB representation. The role provides governance across data, continuous improvement and analytics workstreams.

eFinancialCareers · London · £108,000 – £162,000 pa

Sets up and leads the EMEA cross-domain data architecture function, covering domains such as Party, Product, Transaction, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Operations and HR. Drives data domain and data product thinking, target-state architecture, governance and standards, and supports strategic programmes including the Data Platform, Client Lifecycle Programme, ECB and BCBS 239. Works with business and IT stakeholders and global domain architects, using tools such as Collibra, Axon, Purview, Databricks and Snowflake.

VIQU IT · London · £500 – £1,000 pd

Owns a government programme's data platform end to end, building batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, quality monitoring and governance in an SC-cleared environment. On top of core data engineering, builds production RAG pipelines covering chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking and query-time access control, with evaluation of retrieval quality.

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.

Network IT · United Kingdom · £700 – £750 pd

Lead the design and implementation of data flows connecting operational systems, analytics and BI platforms, plus data streaming systems and database management. The role involves building and testing complex or large-scale data products, selecting technologies for resilient, scalable solutions, and designing metadata repositories. It also covers troubleshooting databases and data processes, and facilitating discussions across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Datatech · London

Here's a tighter version, keeping the technical credibility but making it feel less like a standard job spec:**Principal Data Architect | DV Cleared**Secure Government & Defence ProgrammesUK | Hybrid + Client Site**Active DV clearance is essential**Architecture that gets built, deployed...

HAYS Specialist Recruitment · Cardiff · £61,500 – £67,500 pa

Lead the establishment of an enterprise data architecture capability and design a Microsoft Fabric-based common data platform. Define data models, architecture principles, standards, governance and lineage across a complex organisation, working with architects, analysts and senior stakeholders to support reporting, analytics and strategic decision-making.

Hays Technology · Cardiff · £61,500 – £67,500 pa

Lead the establishment of an enterprise data architecture capability and design a Microsoft Fabric-based common data platform. Define data models, principles, standards, governance and lineage across a complex organisation, providing architectural oversight and advising senior stakeholders as part of a major digital transformation programme.

Click Digital · Guildford · £66,000 pa

Lead data engineering for a large organisation, shaping an enterprise-level cloud data platform that supports reporting, advanced analytics and future AI. Design and maintain pipelines, data models and governance controls using SQL, Python, Azure and Databricks, while mentoring an Analytics Engineer and influencing data strategy with senior stakeholders.

Click Digital · Manchester · £63,000 pa

Lead data engineering for a large organisation, shaping an enterprise cloud data platform that supports reporting, advanced analytics and future AI. You'll design pipelines and data models using SQL, Python, Azure and Databricks, set engineering standards, and manage an Analytics Engineer while influencing data strategy with senior stakeholders.

Socium Recruitment · Manchester · £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Owns the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap for an established online business, leading a team of ten through a migration from on-prem SQL to Azure. Sets engineering standards across data modelling, pipelines, governance and automated deployments, and makes the calls on tooling, budget and suppliers while reporting into the C-suite. Microsoft Fabric adoption and practical AI use are open questions the role holder will shape.