Data Engineer

North East Combined Authority; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

North East Mayoral Strategic Authority is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and integration solutions. You will work with senior leaders, analysts and partners to ensure data quality and governance while enabling trusted data for decision making.

You will drive major data engineering projects, set technical standards and help establish master data and metadata capabilities, supporting the organisation’s data strategy and innovative data platforms.

Qualifications

• Designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines and integration solutions.
• Championing data governance, security and data sharing across the organisation.
• Helping establish master data and metadata capabilities and contribute to data strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines and data integrations across systems.
• Collaborate with senior leaders, analysts and partners to align data solutions with business needs.
• Contribute to data governance, quality frameworks and master data initiatives.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data integration

Data governance

Data quality

Master data

Metadata

Stakeholder collaboration

SQL

ETL

Tools

SQL

ETL

Job description

Join us as a Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer within the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority’s Technology and Transformation team, you’ll play a central role in shaping a modern, reliable and scalable data platform that underpins decision‑making across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to unlock the value of diverse data assets, enabling better insights, more effective service delivery and stronger strategic planning. Your work will ensure that high‑quality, trusted and accessible data is consistently available to colleagues, partners and leaders.

The Role

You will lead on designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines and integration solutions that bring together data from a wide range of internal and external systems. You’ll work closely with stakeholders from across the organisation—including senior leaders, analysts, architects and external partners—to understand business challenges, improve data quality and ensure data flows smoothly from source systems into our core platform. From automating manual data flows to creating reusable datasets and visualisations, you will help transform how the North East MSA uses data to inform real‑world priorities.

You will also drive forward major data engineering projects, setting technical standards, applying rigorous quality controls and championing best practice in data governance, security and sharing. This includes contributing to our data strategy, developing data management and quality frameworks, and helping to establish master data and metadata capabilities across the organisation. By exploring and adopting innovative technologies and modern engineering approaches, you will play a key role in ensuring the North East MSA remains at the forefront of data innovation and insight.

About You

You will be able to combine strong data engineering capability with collaborative stakeholder working. You’ll be comfortable designing reliable pipelines and integrations, improving data quality, applying technical standards and governance controls, and translating business challenges into reusable data solutions.

What it isn’t

This isn’t a traditional database administration or reporting role. You won’t be working in isolation or focusing on a single system or dataset. Although you’ll help shape standards and strategy, this is a hands‑on engineering role where you’ll design, build and maintain practical data solutions in collaboration with teams across the organisation.

So, if you

want to help build a modern data platform, unlock the value of diverse data assets and improve how data supports decisions and services across the North East, we’d like to hear from you.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, communities and experiences. We support flexible working and encourage applications from candidates who are under‑represented including women, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

If you would like an informal discussion, or further information about this role, please contact Marcus Rees‑Harris, Head of Technology and Transformation, at [e-mail].

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 27th October 2026 at 23:59.

For further information about the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority please visit our website www.northeast-ca.gov.uk.

This recruitment is being administered by Durham County Council on behalf of the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.