Lead Data Engineer, HO Digital Networks and Infrastructure
| Posting date: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £66,229 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum £66,229 for London roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £18,291. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 March 2026 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 452831/1 |
Summary
You will ensure the organisation can confidently interpret cloud billing behaviour, including the application of commitment-based discounts and commercial mechanisms, and translate this into trusted, reusable data assets. You will work closely with finance and engineering stakeholders to ensure outputs meet operational needs (including exportable, finance ready reporting) and improve the quality of the standing data that underpins allocation and recharge.
A key part of the role is enabling consistent access to insight through dashboards and datasets, including those built in AWS QuickSight using AWS and Azure billing data enriched with organisational context (e.g. cost centres and portfolios).
You will also help set minimum standards and requirements for FinOps capability across the hub and spoke model.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.
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Lead Data Engineers deliver the data engineering vision for the organisation as set by the Principal Data Engineer. As a Lead Data Engineer, you will focus on designing and implementing numerous complex data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and BI systems.
You will identify and deliver new data sources and develop ETL processes, collaborate with the Data Acquisition, Analytics and Infrastructure teams to deliver the data strategy through the design and implementation of technology systems.
You will lead the data management and data engineering services and analytical projects, working collaboratively with other teams to acquire and ingest new data sources. You will also work with the Principal Data Engineer, Data Architects, Database Administrators, Technical Architects, Solution Architects and Data Analytics team to set the enterprise data strategy and standards and agree implementation and governance.
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