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# Junior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** £35,000.0 - £45,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Integration, Data Systems, Python (Programming Language), Operational Databases, Data Management
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5846991732

## About the Role

You will bring strong capability in:

 * Excellent problem-solving ability and engineering fundamentals
 * Strong academic background (with a preference for a STEM degree)
 * Experience with Python, or similar languages
 * Clear communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset

## Description

You will take ownership of designing, building, and scaling data platforms and pipelines that power critical business and customer-facing experiences., * Building, maintaining, and optimising production data pipelines and workflows

 * Contributing to new data platform initiatives, third-party data integrations, and infrastructure improvements
 * Owning data solutions end-to-end with a high level of autonomy from day one
 * Collaborating closely with Product, Commercial, Analytics, and Data Science teams
 * Influencing data architecture decisions and helping shape the future direction of the data engineering function


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