Lead Data Engineer - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - G7

Location: Swansea

This Lead Data Engineer role sits within DVLA's data platform team, working on modern, large-scale data systems that drive better decisions, insights and digital services.

Why this role stands out

• Lead engineering for high-impact data products across DVLA
• Work with modern technologies including Databricks, Spark, and lakehouse architectures
• Shape standards and best practice across a growing data function
• Collaborate with product teams, analysts and data scientists
• Play a key role in improving digital services at national scale

What you'll be doing

• Leading the design and build of data pipelines and data products
• Developing robust data models and integrations across systems
• Ensuring data is processed efficiently for analytics and business intelligence
• Driving best practice and standards across data engineering teams
• Supporting performance optimisation and balancing cost, scalability and reliability
• Working across teams to enable reuse of data and improve delivery

Who this role could suit

This role could be a strong fit if experience includes:

• Leading data engineering or data platform delivery
• Strong SQL and Python development skills
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Databricks)
• Data modelling, warehousing and large-scale data processing
• Mentoring teams and setting engineering standards

Interested?

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