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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** G Digital
- **Location:** Skelmersdale, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Business Analytics Applications, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Simple Data Format, Parquet, Backend, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840674643-senior-data-engineer

## About the Role

️ A pragmatic, hands-on engineer who thrives in greenfield environments and loves building systems that are clean, testable and futureproof

️ Someone who think in systems and data lifecycles (from raw S3 files to Athena or BI dashboards)

️ An individual who can communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams

️ The desire to work in a small, high-calibre team solving real problems with impact, * Extensive experience in data engineering OR backend roles focused on analytics platforms

 * Strong hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3 and Step Functions
 * Proficiency in Python (incl. PySpark) and SQL
 * Experience building production-grade ETL pipelines
 * Strong understanding of data modelling for analytics, including partitioning, file formats (Parquet, ORC) and denormalisation
 * Track record of enforcing data quality, governance and performance SLAs

## Description

You reporting directly to the Head of Data and working alongside their CTO who's a Goldjacket-level AWS expert with every certification under his belt, known for giving talks across the UK, Europe, and the US

You'll have the opportunity to own the data platform from day one, helping to shape architecture, tooling, governance and delivery processes.

You'll be building in a serverless AWS environment, creating high-performance data lakes and pipelines that support NHS operations, commercial teams and internal decision-making.


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