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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £72,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, DataOps, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Storage Technologies, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-data-engineer/anson-mccade-job108226502

## About the Role

* Experience in data engineering, with opportunities available across mid and senior levels.
 * Strong technical skills in SQL and Python, or similar programming languages.
 * Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL processes.
 * Understanding of data modelling, data management and orchestration.
 * Experience with cloud platforms and data infrastructure.
 * Knowledge of software engineering principles, CI/CD or DataOps practices.
 * Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders across different teams.

## Description

You'll be joining a team of data, cyber and technology specialists working on challenging projects that support government and national security customers. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful data engineering challenges while developing your technical skills in a collaborative environment.
What you'll be doing

 * Building, improving and maintaining data pipelines to extract, transform and load data.
 * Developing reliable, high-quality data solutions using software engineering and DataOps best practices.
 * Working with cloud services to host data infrastructure and manage data storage.
 * Collaborating with data architects, scientists, analysts and other engineers to deliver data solutions.
 * Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements and solve business problems.
 * Applying best practices across data management, orchestration, security and data modelling.
 * For more senior candidates, providing technical leadership, leading design sessions and helping shape data engineering platforms and delivery approaches.