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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £57,946.0 - £75,664.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Apache Spark, Pyspark, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2850774550-2

## About the Role

* Experience leading the technical delivery of data or ETL projects, making sure the work is high quality, reliable, and fit for purpose.
 * Solid, hands-on experience with Informatica Power Centre is essential, including how it's used to integrate, transform and manage data effectively.
 * Strong experience building and delivering data pipelines using cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and big data tools like 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/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 - either through line management or technical leadership - coaching, mentoring and helping others develop their skills.

## Description

You'll be a key part of building and shaping the senior data engineering capability within our Data Platform and Operations function - particularly within our enablement space, where we are establishing stronger leadership, standards and engineering practices.

You'll lead engineers both directly and indirectly, providing day-to-day guidance, mentoring and technical direction. In some teams, you'll have line management responsibility; in others, your influence will come through leading work, setting direction and driving conversations that shape engineering outcomes across multiple teams.

A significant focus of your role will be supporting ongoing platform migrations and transformation activity. This might mean designing and building new pipelines and services, reviewing and assuring the work of other engineers, or setting the standards and patterns that ensure consistency and quality across delivery.

You'll play a central role in building engineering capability - supporting less experienced engineers, embedding best practice and helping create a culture of continuous improvement. From code reviews and technical coaching to defining how we approach data engineering at scale, your contribution will be instrumental in raising the bar across the organisation.


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