Senior Data Engineer
| Posting date: | 07 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,720 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 October 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 431056 |
Summary
Senior Data Engineers deliver on the data analytics vision for the organisation as set by the Principal Data Engineer. You will focus on driving the design and implementation of numerous data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and BI systems. You will achieve this by leading a small team of Data Engineers through delivering new hybrid datasets, improving existing models and removing barriers to the required business information.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will identify and deliver new data sources and develop Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes. You will also collaborate with the Data Acquisition, Analytics and Infrastructure teams to deliver the data strategy through the design and implementation of technology systems.
You will support Lead Data Engineers in analysing problems and data analysis issues, looking for underlying causes and assisting in developing solutions. You will also be responsible for delivering data solutions in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future proof.
You will work closely with the Data Services Science community, who will set the scope of your data engineering work through their research of user and business needs and by their designing data pipelines through writing user stories.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will identify and deliver new data sources and develop Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes. You will also collaborate with the Data Acquisition, Analytics and Infrastructure teams to deliver the data strategy through the design and implementation of technology systems.
You will support Lead Data Engineers in analysing problems and data analysis issues, looking for underlying causes and assisting in developing solutions. You will also be responsible for delivering data solutions in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future proof.
You will work closely with the Data Services Science community, who will set the scope of your data engineering work through their research of user and business needs and by their designing data pipelines through writing user stories.
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