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# Technology Specialist - Digital Twin

- **Company:** Digital Catapult
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Salary:** £35,000.0 - £45,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Databases, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Digital Twin, Snowflake, Data Lakes, Non-relational Database, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5870887483

## About the Role

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (Experience)

 * Technical Background: A strong software engineering, data engineering, or related technical background, with core proficiency in Python and SQL. (Familiarity with other languages like Java or JavaScript is a bonus, but not essential).

 * Pipeline Expertise: Experience designing and building data pipelines, ETL processes, and data integration solutions.

 * Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud data services and platforms, such as Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent technologies.

 * Data Modelling: Knowledge of data modelling and hands-on experience working with both relational and non-relational databases.

 * IoT/Streaming: Experience working with telemetry, IoT, or streaming data.

 * Collaboration & Autonomy: Comfortable working autonomously, shaping technical solutions, and collaborating effectively with partners, clients, and multidisciplinary teams.

## Description

Your role will be to extend and maintain the data backbone of the UK Digital Twin Centre's projects and programmes. You'll transform complex, real-world data from sensors, devices and industrial systems into reliable, scalable data platforms that enable impactful digital twin solutions. Working across a range of digital twin initiatives, you'll help shape data architectures, pipelines and services from initial concept through to delivery.

WHAT YOU'LL DO (Duties)

 * Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines that bring data from sensors, devices and other sources into digital twin platforms.

 * Design and manage data architectures, including the selection and optimisation of data lakes and relational and non-relational databases, while contributing to data modelling, governance and wider architecture decisions across UKDTC projects

 * Clean, transform, and structure data, making sound decisions on data architecture, storage, and database technologies.

 * Develop and optimise telemetry and data integration pipelines to support reliable, scalable digital twin solutions.

 * Evaluate emerging data technologies and recommend approaches that improve performance, scalability and maintainability.

 * Collaborate with industry partners and multidisciplinary teams to understand challenges and translate requirements into practical technical solutions.


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