Data Engineer

Data Engineer

£55,000 - £65,000

Telford (hybrid

A leading consultancy organisation based in is looking to expand their team of Data Engineers to join a specific public sector client. This is a pivotal role, where you will contribute to data acquisition, preparation and management projects, helping to modernise services and deliver secure, reliable data products at scale.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement robust, secure and performant data integration solutions (batch and/or near-Real Time).
• Build, operate and improve data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, curation) with monitoring, alerting and SLAs.
• Collaborate with product teams and client stakeholders to refine requirements and align decisions to NFRs (cost, performance, security).
• Support incident resolution and ensure service continuity.
• Share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to Capgemini's engineering communities of practice.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and work cross-functionally with engineers, analysts and business teams.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Our team delivers solutions across a wide range of technologies, and so we are looking for candidates with strong knowledge in data engineering fundamentals, with ability to operate at all stages of the delivery life cycle, with an interest in learning and cross-skilling.

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong SQL and hands-on experience with data modelling.
• Hands-on with ETL/ELT tooling (at least one of Talend, Pentaho DI, Informatica, AWS Glue, or SAS).
• Experience with databases/data platforms (ideally Oracle or Cloudera).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
• Good experience with programming/Scripting languages (eg Python, Bash).
• Strong grasp of data engineering fundamentals, including integration, transformation, orchestration, and version control.
• Excellent client-facing and consultancy skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Drive to share knowledge, mentoring and developing others.