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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Salford Council
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Sharing, Data Systems, Information Lifecycle Management, Cloud Platform System, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=45751e9e52bfa261

## About the Role

You're a data engineer with demonstrable experience of designing, building and operating data platforms in production environments. You're comfortable working in cloud-native platforms and have strong experience with data pipelines, modern data architectures and managing data across its full lifecycle.

You can balance robustness, scalability and cost of solutions whilst maintaining high standards of data quality. You enjoy working collaboratively, translating service needs into technical solutions and supporting others to make effective use of shared data platforms and data governance.

You're passionate, continuously developing your skills, and motivated by the opportunity to use data to improve public services.

## Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced data engineer to play a key role in building and operating the council's modern data platforms. You'll design, develop and run data engineering solutions supporting analytics, insight and AI use cases. Working with lakehouse-style architectures and cloud platforms, you'll take ownership of data pipelines and data lifecycle management.

The role is hands-on and delivery-focused and you'll work closely with analytics, AI and digital portfolio teams to translate service and reporting needs into sustainable data solutions. You'll shape how data is ingested, structured, governed and shared across the organisation, ensuring data is secure, high quality and fit for purpose.