Senior Data Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

: Experience leading the technical delivery of data or ETL projects, ensuring work is high quality, reliable, and fit for purpose.Solid, hands-on experience with Informatica PowerCenter, including using it to integrate, transform, and manage data effectively.Strong experience building and delivering data pipelines using cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and big data tools such as Kafka or Spark.Confident using Python or PySpark and SQL to process, transform, and analyse data, and able to guide others in doing the same.Good understanding of modern data platforms such as Azure or Fabric, including how data is ingested, cleaned, structured, and made available to users.Experience leading or supporting large-scale platform migrations or transformations, ensuring best practice is followed and risks are managed.Ability to lead engineers through line management or technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, and helping others develop their skills.Ability to pass Security Check clearance. Responsibilities: Lead engineers directly and indirectly, providing day-to-day guidance, mentoring, and technical direction.Set direction, drive conversations, and influence engineering outcomes across multiple teams.Support ongoing platform migrations and transformation activity.Design and build new pipelines and services.Review and assure the work of other engineers.Set standards and patterns that ensure consistency and quality across delivery.Build engineering capability by supporting less experienced engineers.Embed best practice and help create a culture of continuous improvement.Carry out code reviews, provide technical coaching, and define how we approach data engineering at scale.Help establish senior data engineering excellence within our enablement space. Technologies: AWSAzureBig DataCloudETLFabricInformaticaSupportKafkaLESSPythonPySparkSQLSecuritySpark More: We are DWP Digital, one of the UKs largest and most impactful digital environments, and we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform and Operations team within Data & Analytics.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape our senior data engineering capability as we continue major platform migration and transformation work. We offer a hybrid working model from one of our digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, or Sheffield. Our package includes pay up to £75,664, a generous civil service pension, flexible working, volunteering time, discounts, development opportunities, and a supportive, award-winning culture that values inclusion, coaching, and career progression. last updated 34 week of 2026