Data Engineer SC Cleared - 6 Months Contract

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Were looking for an experienced

Data Engineer

to join a newly formed scrum team working on a large-scale, data-driven platform within a highly regulated public sector environment. This role focuses on building and enhancing robust data acquisition, ingestion, and risking services that underpin critical analytics and decision-making capabilities.
The Role

Youll play a key part in designing and delivering scalable data pipelines and integration services that consolidate multiple data sources into a unified, high-performance platform. The work supports complex analytical and BI workloads, leveraging modern data engineering, cloud, and DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and deploy data integration and transformation solutions
Develop scalable data pipelines and services for analytics and BI platforms
Work closely with product owners, analysts, and engineers to define requirements and deliver solutions
Contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies and continuous improvement
Implement DevOps practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment
Ensure high standards of data quality, governance, and security
Troubleshoot complex data and performance issues
Mentor junior team members where required
Key Skills & Experience

Strong ETL experience with

Pentaho

and

Talend
Data virtualisation experience using

Denodo
SAS

for data analytics and reporting
Strong

SQL

and data modelling skills
Hands-on

AWS experience

(building, integrating, or supporting data solutions in the cloud)
Experience with DevOps tooling (e.g. Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum ways of working
Strong communication and problem-solving skills
Nice to Have

Experience leading data initiatives or technical workstreams
Agile, DevOps, or data platform certifications

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