Data Engineer

inploi; Salford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to enhance data platforms that support analytics and AI. The role demands expertise in building and operating data solutions within cloud-native environments, ensuring data quality and governance. The ideal candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform service needs into efficient data management solutions. This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful public service improvements through data usage.

Benefits

Opportunities for continuous development

Diverse and inclusive culture

Support for individuals with disabilities

Qualifications

• Design, build and operate data platforms in production environments.
• Manage data across its full lifecycle in cloud-native platforms.
• Translate service needs into data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate modern data platforms for the council.
• Shape data ingestion, structuring, governance, and sharing.
• Collaborate with teams to meet service and reporting needs.

Skills

Data engineering expertise

Experience with data pipelines

Strong data quality management

Collaboration skills

Tools

Cloud-native platforms

Lakehouse architecture

Job description

About us

Salford is an ambitious, globally connected city with a strong digital and innovation ecosystem centred around MediaCity and the University of Salford. Salford City Council is investing in modern data and digital platforms to transform how public services are designed, delivered and improved.

Our growing AI & Data function sits at the heart of this transformation. We are building modern, cloud-based data platforms that enable trusted insight, support intelligent services, and provide the foundations for responsible AI. Our work directly supports the council’s ambition to create a fairer, greener and healthier Salford by making better use of data across the organisation.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced data engineer to play a key role in building and operating the council’s modern data platforms. You'll design, develop and run data engineering solutions supporting analytics, insight and AI use cases. Working with lakehouse-style architectures and cloud platforms, you'll take ownership of data pipelines and data lifecycle management.

The role is hands‑on and delivery‑focused and you'll work closely with analytics, AI and digital portfolio teams to translate service and reporting needs into sustainable data solutions. You'll shape how data is ingested, structured, governed and shared across the organisation, ensuring data is secure, high quality and fit for purpose.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to apply strong data engineering expertise in a complex, meaningful environment and help lay the foundations for long‑term data and AI capability in the public sector.

About you

You're a data engineer with demonstrable experience of designing, building and operating data platforms in production environments. You're comfortable working in cloud‑native platforms and have strong experience with data pipelines, modern data architectures and managing data across its full lifecycle.

You can balance robustness, scalability and cost of solutions whilst maintaining high standards of data quality. You enjoy working collaboratively, translating service needs into technical solutions and supporting others to make effective use of shared data platforms and data governance.

You're passionate, continuously developing your skills, and motivated by the opportunity to use data to improve public services.

If you have any queries about the role, contact Adam Grant (Head of AI and Data) : [e-mail]

Want to know more about Salford?

As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champion this.

Find out about our city as a place to live, work & grow, and learn more about the amazing work we are doing. You’ll also find out about the wealth of benefits we have to offer you on our Salford pages!

Continuous Service commitment

New employees can keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others under this scheme. Find out if this applies to you on our Continuous Service page..

Guaranteed Assessment Schemes

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex‑military personnel by way of a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme. Our application forms ask you to indicate if you meet any of the criteria within this scheme, and so to find out more and if you qualify please visit our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme page..

Privacy Statement and Data Protection

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr .

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