Data Engineer

We are looking for a skilled and proactive IT Data Engineer to design and deliver high-quality, scalable data solutions that support digital transformation across the Sizewell C alliance.

You will play a key role in building and maintaining data pipelines, developing robust data platforms, and ensuring accurate, accessible data is available to support business decision-making. Working closely with BI analysts, project partners and functional teams, you will help shape and evolve the programme’s digital capability in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Data Engineering & Architecture: Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines across structured and unstructured sources, developing data lakes, warehouses and enterprise data models to support reporting and analytics.
• Integration & Platform Management: Integrate datasets across multiple systems and partners, and manage cloud-based data platforms (primarily Azure), ensuring performance, reliability and scalability.
• ETL/ELT & Delivery Practices: Develop robust ETL/ELT processes and reusable components, embedding DevOps, CI/CD and automation best practices into the data engineering lifecycle.
• Data Quality, Governance & Security: Ensure strong data governance, quality and security standards are applied, maintaining compliance with UK GDPR and organisational controls.
• Reporting & Collaboration: Partner with BI teams to deliver trusted datasets and Power BI semantic models, supporting reporting, insights and wider digital transformation initiatives.

Essential

• Proven experience working as a Data Engineer
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modelling
• Hands-on experience with Azure and cloud-based data tools
• Experience designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines
• Good understanding of data architecture, warehousing and integration principles
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts, including CI/CD and version control
• Experience supporting enterprise reporting environments, including Power Platform or Power BI
• Right to work in the UK (visa sponsorship is not available for this role)

Desirable

• Experience with Python, PySpark or R
• Exposure to Agile delivery environments
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks
• Experience working in infrastructure, regulated or large-scale project environments
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, Event Hub, IoT Hub)
• Relevant Azure (e.g. DP-203) or Power BI certifications