Data Engineer

We are looking for a curious and analytically minded Junior Data Engineer to join our team as we scale AI-powered solutions. You will work alongside AI engineers and ML ops teams to build and maintain the data foundations & pipelines that underpin intelligent systems, from entity resolution and confidence scoring to structured data pipelines and insight generation., * Design and maintain data pipelines that ingest, clean, and normalise data from structured and unstructured sources

• Build logic and confidence scoring frameworks to produce trusted, conflict-free data records
• Clean and validate data to ensure uniformity, accuracy, and consistency across sources
• Produce exploratory data analysis and visualisations to surface trends, anomalies, and best path forward to create data ready for AI solutions
• Collaborate with AI Engineers & ML Devops to ensure clean, well-attributed data reaches downstream models
• Analyse AI agents usage across the business
• Technologies: Python, R, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter, Dbt, Spark, PowerBi, Git, REST APIs

This role is well suited to a recent graduate or someone in the early stages of their career who has strong fundamentals and a genuine appetite to grow in a modern AI engineering environment., Core Analytical Skills:

• Data wrangling, cleaning, and normalisation for structured & unstructured data
• Data validation to ensure uniformity and feature engineering when needed
• Entity resolution and deduplication
• Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
• Data quality assessment and monitoring
• Clear technical documentation
• Proficiency in Python, * Clear communication of technical findings to non-technical audiences
• Collaborative working with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
• Structured, methodical approach to problem solving
• Willingness to ask questions and learn from feedback

Nice to have:

• Exposure to NLP or text classification
• Familiarity with graph & semantic layers
• Experience with cloud data platforms
• Understanding of AI data governance principles

Salary Package: £26,227.50 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year Hours: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Monday - Friday Interview Process: 2-stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe’s largest privately-owned IT Company

SCC is Europe’s largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.