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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** PortSwigger
- **Location:** Knutsford, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Computing Platforms, Cloud Database, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Transformation, Dataspaces, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Data Storage Technologies, Cloud Platform System, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815452023-data-engineer

## About the Role

* 4+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering or a closely related data engineering discipline
 * Strong SQL expertise with experience building and optimising complex transformations
 * Strong Python skills for data engineering and automation workloads
 * Experience working with cloud-based data platforms, ideally AWS
 * Experience with cloud data warehousing technologies such as Redshift or equivalent
 * Experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines
 * Experience using AI to enhance your Data Engineering workflows
 * Strong understanding of data modelling principles and best practices
 * Experience working with structured and semi-structured datasets
 * Understanding of data governance, data quality and security principles
 * Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable

 * Experience with dbt or similar modern data transformation tooling
 * Experience contributing to data platform modernisation or migration initiatives
 * Experience implementing observability and data quality frameworks
 * Exposure to platform architecture and long-term technical decision making
 * Experience supporting AI, machine learning or advanced analytics workloads
 * Experience operating within high-growth technology businesses

## Description

* Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines and workflows
 * Develop and optimise data models within our cloud data warehouse environment
 * Improve data quality, governance, lineage and observability across the platform
 * Support the development of trusted, self-service analytics capabilities for business stakeholders
 * Partner with Finance, Technology and operational teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable data solutions
 * Contribute to architectural decisions relating to data storage, modelling, orchestration and platform design
 * Implement security and governance best practices across the data ecosystem
 * Continuously improve platform reliability, performance and maintainability
 * Evaluate new technologies and approaches where they can create meaningful business value
 * Share knowledge and contribute to raising engineering standards across the team


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