Senior Data Engineer
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,487 to £45,675 per year |
| Additional salary information: | eviewable Market Allowance of between 7-15k, dependent on skill |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2026 |
| Location: | Guildford, Surrey |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Sussex Police |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SYSX EXEC00060 |
Summary
The Role & Key Responsibilities
From your first day with us you will be part of a policing family making a real difference.
It is our mission to identify and protect vulnerable people, prevent and respond to harm and keep people safe.
This role has a current reviewable Market Allowance of between 7-15k, dependent on skill, in addition to the relevant salary range: Surrey Police £38,064 - £45,058 / Sussex Police £41,487 - £45,765
Surrey and Sussex Police have a flexible working policy which we are happy to discuss.
We operate a hybrid working model, with office days at either our Surrey HQ in Guildford or our Sussex HQ in Lewes, depending on where you are based.
Make data matter where it matters most.
Join a policing organisation committed to identify and protect vulnerable people, prevent and respond to harm and keep people safe. As a Senior Data Engineer, your work will power critical decisions by delivering trusted, high-quality data.
We’re transforming our cloud and data platforms and are looking for experienced data engineers to help shape the future of our data capability in Microsoft Fabric using modern architectures.
What You’ll Do
Lead the modernisation of our data warehouse and implement Lakehouse architectures.
Design, build, and optimise a secure, scalable cloud data platform.
Architect and optimise high-performance, scalable data pipelines leveraging SQL, Python and Fabric Data Factory within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, analysts, and data scientists to deliver impactful data products.
Act as a technical leader—mentoring data engineers, driving best practices, and improving platform performance.
Monitor, troubleshoot, root cause analysis and performance optimisation of legacy data issues.
Skills & Experience
Skills and Experience
What You’ll Bring
Strong experience delivering cloud data solutions (Microsoft Fabric or Azure preferred) with experience in other cloud data platforms also welcomed (e.g. AWS, Snowflake, Databricks).
Hands-on expertise with Data Factory (Fabric or Azure), notebooks (Python, PySpark), advanced SQL, and strong data modelling and performance optimisation skills. Experience with other cloud data engineering and transformation tools is also welcomed, (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark)
Proven track record building scalable data pipelines and implementing modern architectures such as Medallion.
Experience with CI/CD, Git, Azure DevOps, and API-based integrations.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Contribute to data engineering technical documentation, standards, best practices, and continuous improvement.
A proactive, solution-focused mindset with leadership capability.
Nice to have: Experience with legacy technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, SSIS, SAP Data Services, T-SQL or PL/SQL.
If you enjoy solving complex challenges, influencing technical direction and seeing the real-world impact of your work, this is your opportunity to build something that truly matters.
Why Work With Us?
Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We’re invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working.
We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits;
career progression
contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
generous annual leave allowance
discounts for everyday spend
on-site gyms and a range of sports clubs
generous and supportive parental leave
financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
discounted contributory healthcare scheme
Please use the following links for more information on the benefits of working with Surrey Police or Sussex Police
Further Information
For more details about this role please contact Carole Jowett, Data Engineering Team Lead via Carole.Jowett@sussex.police.uk.
From your first day with us you will be part of a policing family making a real difference.
It is our mission to identify and protect vulnerable people, prevent and respond to harm and keep people safe.
This role has a current reviewable Market Allowance of between 7-15k, dependent on skill, in addition to the relevant salary range: Surrey Police £38,064 - £45,058 / Sussex Police £41,487 - £45,765
Surrey and Sussex Police have a flexible working policy which we are happy to discuss.
We operate a hybrid working model, with office days at either our Surrey HQ in Guildford or our Sussex HQ in Lewes, depending on where you are based.
Make data matter where it matters most.
Join a policing organisation committed to identify and protect vulnerable people, prevent and respond to harm and keep people safe. As a Senior Data Engineer, your work will power critical decisions by delivering trusted, high-quality data.
We’re transforming our cloud and data platforms and are looking for experienced data engineers to help shape the future of our data capability in Microsoft Fabric using modern architectures.
What You’ll Do
Lead the modernisation of our data warehouse and implement Lakehouse architectures.
Design, build, and optimise a secure, scalable cloud data platform.
Architect and optimise high-performance, scalable data pipelines leveraging SQL, Python and Fabric Data Factory within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, analysts, and data scientists to deliver impactful data products.
Act as a technical leader—mentoring data engineers, driving best practices, and improving platform performance.
Monitor, troubleshoot, root cause analysis and performance optimisation of legacy data issues.
Skills & Experience
Skills and Experience
What You’ll Bring
Strong experience delivering cloud data solutions (Microsoft Fabric or Azure preferred) with experience in other cloud data platforms also welcomed (e.g. AWS, Snowflake, Databricks).
Hands-on expertise with Data Factory (Fabric or Azure), notebooks (Python, PySpark), advanced SQL, and strong data modelling and performance optimisation skills. Experience with other cloud data engineering and transformation tools is also welcomed, (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark)
Proven track record building scalable data pipelines and implementing modern architectures such as Medallion.
Experience with CI/CD, Git, Azure DevOps, and API-based integrations.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Contribute to data engineering technical documentation, standards, best practices, and continuous improvement.
A proactive, solution-focused mindset with leadership capability.
Nice to have: Experience with legacy technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, SSIS, SAP Data Services, T-SQL or PL/SQL.
If you enjoy solving complex challenges, influencing technical direction and seeing the real-world impact of your work, this is your opportunity to build something that truly matters.
Why Work With Us?
Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We’re invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working.
We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits;
career progression
contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
generous annual leave allowance
discounts for everyday spend
on-site gyms and a range of sports clubs
generous and supportive parental leave
financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
discounted contributory healthcare scheme
Please use the following links for more information on the benefits of working with Surrey Police or Sussex Police
Further Information
For more details about this role please contact Carole Jowett, Data Engineering Team Lead via Carole.Jowett@sussex.police.uk.