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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Yesterday By Pennon Group
- **Location:** Redhill, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £50,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Data as a Services, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Structures, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Semi-structured Data, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/data-engineer/57329441

## About the Role

You'll be passionate about building data solutions that make a real difference and enjoy working collaboratively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
Essential Skills and Experience

 * Significant experience working as a Data Engineer (typically around five years or more)
 * Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
 * Proven experience designing and delivering end-to-end data engineering solutions
 * Experience working with structured and semi-structured datasets
 * Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
 * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to a non-technical audience

Desirable Skills and Experience

While not essential, we'd be particularly interested in hearing from candidates who have experience with:

 * Microsoft Azure data services
 * Microsoft Access and legacy reporting environments
 * Modernising, integrating, or transforming fragmented data and reporting systems, * Amazon Web Services (AWS)
 * Cloud Services & Infrastructure
 * Communication Skills (Key)
 * Data Engineering Roles
 * Data Pipeline Development
 * Data Warehousing
 * ETL (Extract Transform Load)
 * Microsoft Azure (Line)
 * Python Programming (Beginner)
 * SQL Databases

## Description

We're looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our growing Data & Analytics team. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and improve our data landscape, delivering solutions that enable better decision-making across the organisation.

As a Data Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that transform data into valuable business insights. Working with both structured and semi-structured data, you'll develop reliable, efficient solutions that help teams access the information they need when they need it.

You'll collaborate closely with analytics colleagues and stakeholders across the business, translating requirements into sustainable data engineering solutions that support both current and future needs.
What You'll Be Doing

 * Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-quality data pipelines
 * Working with multiple data sources to unlock insights from complex datasets
 * Translating business requirements into robust, sustainable data solutions and architectures
 * Collaborating with analytics teams to ensure data products are accurate, reliable, and fit for purpose
 * Maintaining and enhancing our existing reporting infrastructure, which currently includes a mixture of Microsoft Access and Azure-based solutions
 * Creating clear documentation that makes data structures and processes easy to understand and maintain
 * Supporting improvements in data quality, accessibility, governance, and reliability across the organisation


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