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# Data Engineer - DEFRA

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £114,400.0 - £119,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Database Development, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Apache Spark, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2919685631-2

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience delivering data engineering solutions in Azure.
 * Strong hands-on experience working with Azure Databricks
 * Experience working with geospatial, mapping or location intelligence datasets
 * Central UK government experience within recent 5 years
 * Experience developing large-scale distributed data processing workloads.
 * Strong Python and SQL development skills.
 * Experience working with Spark-based technologies.
 * Knowledge of modern cloud data platform patterns and architectures.
 * Experience building and supporting automated data pipelines.
 * Familiarity with CI/CD practices and modern software engineering principles.
 * Strong troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills.



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