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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** DWP Digital
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,664.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Technical Data Management Systems, Data Processing, Apache Spark
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-data-engineer/dwp-digital-job107893740

## About the Role

What skills,knowledgeand experience will you need?

 * Strong experience of leading the design and delivery of complex data solutions across a team/business area in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future proof.

 * Advanced experience using SQL, Python, (in a Spark context) to interrogate, transform, analyse and troubleshoot complex datasets, with knowledge of Oracle Fusion reporting technologies, including FDI/AIDP and OTBI, or equivalent reporting platforms.

 * Ability to lead the development of a portfolio of ETL pipelines, across a range of complex and/or large volume data including effective delegation of work.

 * Knowledge of leading the identification, description and isolation of complex technical data, coding, tooling and platform problems; coaching the team in describing and resolving these.

 * Ability to determine, collate and translate complex customer requirements and translate these into delivery design for data processing.

 * Good ability to manage senior stakeholders including the ability to manage a diverse set of stakeholders to translate, prioritise and integrate their technical needs in team workflow.

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing data and analytics community within DWP Digital.

We're transforming how data is used across government, harnessing modern cloud technologies, enterprise reporting platforms and data engineering practices to deliver trusted insight at scale.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn each year, supporting millions of people through some of the most important moments in their lives.

Delivering services at this scale generates vast amounts of data, and the ability to turn that data into meaningful insight is fundamental to improving services, driving efficiency and supporting better outcomes for citizens.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and the opportunity to influence how data supports decision-making across government is unique. We'd love you to join us., You'll also play a key role in developing engineering standards, mentoring colleagues and shaping the future direction of data engineering capability within the organisation.


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