Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Target Start Date: 20th June 2026

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: £54,000 – £81,000

Location: Eastleigh and Reigate

Closing Date for applications: 18th April

Responsibilities

• Build and support data products within our modern data platform
• Design and deliver solutions with engineers, scientists and product teams
• Develop and optimise data pipelines across the analytics platform
• Integrate data from varied sources with strong quality standards
• Maintain orchestration, monitoring and performance of data components
• Improve engineering processes across the wider data community
• Promote high coding and data practice standards
• Experiment with emerging data, ML and AI technologies
• Partner with architects on data product designs
• Work collaboratively in multi-functional agile squads
• Support ML and GenAI infrastructure and workflows

Qualifications

• Passion for building scalable, resilient cloud data platforms
• Strong experience with Databricks or Snowflake on AWS
• Proven Python skills, including Spark and Airflow expertise
• Advanced SQL skills and end‑to‑end data modelling experience
• Experience building batch and real‑time data integrations
• Hands‑on CI/CD skills with Git, Jenkins or similar
• Ability to ingest, cleanse and structure large, diverse datasets
• Knowledge of Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial
• Exposure to production Generative AI is an advantage
• Strong collaboration skills and a proactive attitude

Benefits

• Flexible Working – Smart Working across the UK with part‑time and job‑share options; minimum 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) with buying and selling of days
• Health – Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well‑Being activities – Mindfulness
• Wealth – 50% off esure and Sheilas’ Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans
• Well‑being – Activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events
• Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks full pay
• Partner – Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
• Tech – Deals on gadgets including wearables, tablets and laptops
• Getting around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
• Back to work – Return to work programme after maternity leave

We are committed to diversity and inclusion. We are members of the Race at Work Charter, Women in Finance Charter, iCAN, GAIN and are a Disability Confident Leader. We welcome all candidates to apply.

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