Active SC - Data Engineer - Remote
Job Title: Data Engineer
Rate: £500 (Inside IR35)
Duration:6 months
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active SC
Stages: 1 Stage
Must Have Active SC
What you'll do
- Engineer production-grade data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric (One Lake/Delta Lake, Data Factory, Synapse Notebook Data Engineering), using PySpark/Spark SQL/Python and SQL, with a focus on performance, resilience, testing, and observability.
- Support reporting & MI use cases, including transformations and data models that feed downstream tools (eg, Power BI).
- Own CI/CD and version control practices (eg, Git/GitLab), review code, and enforce engineering standards.
- Coach and mentor engineers, provide technical guidance/code reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions across squads.
- Work in Agile delivery, collaborating across product, data, and platform teams using Jira/Confluence; translate requirements into robust engineering tasks.
- Embed security and compliance by design, aligning with BPSS/SC constraints and department data-handling policies.
Essential skills & experience
- Hands-on expertise in Azure/Fabric: Microsoft Fabric (One Lake/Delta Lake, Data Factory, Synapse Notebook Data Engineering), using PySpark/Spark SQL/Python and SQL for large-scale batch processing.
- Data engineering at scale in government or similarly complex domains, including performance tuning and data-quality management.
- CI/CD & DevOps: pipelines and IaC (eg, Terraform), automated testing, and release governance.
- Version control & collaboration: Git/GitLab, code review, branching strategies, and trunk/PR workflows.
- APIs & integration: building/consuming data services to move and expose data safely and reliably.
- Agile ways of working with Jira/Confluence; clear stakeholder communication and concise technical documentation.
- Security clearance: BPSS (minimum) and SC-cleared or SC-clearable for UK government work.