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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £72,171.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Transformation, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Jupyter Notebook, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Jupyter, SC Clearance
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5884535633

## About the Role

* Active SC Clearance with a government body is required.
 * Data analysis experience.
 * Data transformation and ETL experience.
 * Database experience.
 * Understanding of data science principles.
 * AWS suite experience.
 * Ability to return services to good states in outage situations.
 * Understanding of testing and automation.
 * Experience working in a lean, agile environment.
 * Experience working in a you build it, you run it team.
 * Experience coding in a continuous integration context.
 * Essential skills and technologies: Python, Spark, SQL, database experience, AWS Suite., We are seeking a Data Engineer to support our client on a project. The role is fully remote and sits inside scope of IR35 at a rate of £489 per day. We value proactive, responsible, motivated self-starters with a user-centric attitude who prioritise people over processes, drive lean results, and advocate doing the right thing. Our team works collaboratively with regular pairing, thoughtful course-correction, simple maintainable code, and a willingness to work across disciplines. We encourage creativity, evidence-driven decision-making, and a focus on testing, automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

## Description

* Define and shape the way we build and transform our audit data products.
 * Support front-end Attribute Reputation services (APIs) by providing attribute insights for fraud detection and prevention.
 * Operate, maintain, and improve our pipelines and channels.
 * Munging large data sets from multiple sources, including audit data captured from Digital Services.
 * Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide data business solutions, including publishing and sharing data.
 * Create and produce Jupyter notebooks.
 * Perform data processing, validation, and cleansing.
 * Summarize and enrich data sets for convenient use by consumers.
 * Set up, maintain, and improve automated data processes.
 * Help others understand our work through co-participatory design, pairing, demos, and documentation.
 * Work cross-discipline and contribute to improvements for the greater good of CIP.

Technologies:

 * AWS
 * ETL
 * Support
 * Jupyter
 * Python
 * SQL
 * Spark
 * Cloud
 * Security


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