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# Graduate Platform Data Engineer

- **Company:** Todaydigital
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** £25,000.0 - £30,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), BigQuery, Information Engineering, Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Git, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815168726-graduate-platform-data-engineer

## About the Role

* Recent graduate (Computer Science / Data Engineering / Software Engineering)
 * Strong SQL fundamentals
 * Understanding of data warehousing concepts
 * Experience with Git
 * Comfortable learning GCP / BigQuery
 * Has built a project beyond coursework (portfolio matters)

Bonus

 * dbt exposure
 * Python basics
 * Experience with APIs

## Description

We're a Monday-Thursday business!

Careers

Graduate Platform Data Engineer

Techtelligence is Today Digital's next-generation market intelligence platform, designed to turn first-party editorial data, behavioural signals, intent data, and expert insight into practical intelligence for technology buyers and vendors.

The platform underpins UC Today, CX Today, and Today Digital's emerging data and research products - including insight reports, buyer intelligence, dashboards, surveys, and commercial intelligence offerings.

Role Overview

You will help build the data backbone of Techtelligence.

This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and analytics engineering - transforming raw datasets into structured, production-ready intelligence assets.

You will work directly on BigQuery architecture, curated data models, and transformation logic.

What You'll Be Doing

Data Modelling

 * Build curated transformation tables
 * Standardise schemas
 * Create reusable SQL views
 * Implement snapshot logic for trend tracking

Pipeline Support

 * Improve ingestion processes
 * Help structure API imports
 * Support version-controlled SQL workflows

Platform Development

 * Help implement dbt or structured transformation frameworks
 * Build logic for topic scoring and intent modelling
 * Contribute to Signals Index development

What We're Looking For

 * Recent graduate (Computer Science / Data Engineering / Software Engineering)
 * Strong SQL fundamentals
 * Understanding of data warehousing concepts
 * Experience with Git
 * Comfortable learning GCP / BigQuery
 * Has built a project beyond coursework (portfolio matters)

Bonus

 * dbt exposure
 * Python basics
 * Experience with APIs

JOB DETAILS

Remuneration £25,000 - £30,000

4-Day Work Week

We're a Monday-Thursday business!

Work Perks Private Healthcare, Wellness Program, Rewards and Discounts + more

Location In-Office (Ancoats, Manchester, UK)

Contract Type Full-time

Start Date Immediate


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