Cloud Data Engineer for Modern Platform & AI

Salford-Council; Swinton; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Salford City Council is building modern, cloud-based data platforms to enable trusted insight and AI-driven services. This role focuses on designing, building and operating data pipelines, data lifecycle management and governance to support analytics across the organisation.

The data engineering position is hands-on and delivery-focused, partnering with analytics and AI teams to translate service needs into robust data solutions that drive better public services in Salford.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and operating data platforms in production environments.
• Strong experience with cloud-native platforms and data pipelines.
• Knowledge of data lifecycle management and data quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and run data engineering solutions for analytics and AI use cases.
• Own data ingestion, structuring, governance and sharing across the organisation.
• Collaborate with analytics, AI and digital teams to translate needs into scalable data solutions.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Data pipelines

Data governance

Production environments

Job description

Salford City Council is building modern, cloud-based data platforms to enable trusted insight and AI-driven services. This role focuses on designing, building and operating data pipelines, data lifecycle management and governance to support analytics across the organisation.

The data engineering position is hands-on and delivery-focused, partnering with analytics and AI teams to translate service needs into robust data solutions that drive better public services in Salford.