Azure Data Engineer - SC cleared

Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear data, analytical and technical requirements.

• Strong SQL and Python skills for data modelling, transformation, automation and analysis.
• Experience designing data models and architectures across data warehouses, lakehouse and event-driven patterns, or strong semantic modelling in Power BI or other visualisation tools.
• Hands-on experience with modern data engineering frameworks such as Spark/PySpark, Pandas and orchestration tools.
• Experience working with cloud data and AI platforms on AWS or Azure (eg Databricks, Redshift, Bedrock, Microsoft Fabric).
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including Git, testing and QA, CI/CD pipelines and modular, maintainable design.
• Strong analytics and statistical reasoning, including metric design, experimentation and interpretation of results.
• Practical AI/ML literacy, including integrating model APIs, evaluation approaches and prompt orchestration.
• Experience applying data governance, security and quality best practices, such as access control, data catalogues, lineage and GDPR awareness.
• Ability to communicate insight through data visualisation and storytelling using tools like Power BI, Tableau or Python-based charts.

England - Up to £500 per day Contract Posted by: LA International Computer Consultants Ltd Posted: Monday, 23 March 2026 We have a new requirement for a Data Engineer to work for a client of ours. This role has been deemed as Inside IR35 and requires active SC level security clearance., Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.