Data Engineer

develop; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£65k–£130k base salary

10% bonus

Fully onsite in Newcastle

25 days' annual leave + bank holidays

Pension contributions matched up to 6%

Private medical insurance

Job summary

develop is seeking a Data Engineer to join our rapidly growing technology consultancy in Newcastle upon Tyne. You’ll work on complex client projects across data, software and cloud platforms, designing and building reliable data solutions.

This broad role involves collaborating with software, data and engineering teams, owning end-to-end data pipelines, modelling data, and ensuring quality and accessibility across environments. Onsite in Newcastle, with a generous salary and bonus package.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of commercial data engineering experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience building production data pipelines.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders on client-facing projects.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines.
• Developing data platforms and integrations.
• Working with Python, SQL and cloud technologies.
• Ensuring data quality, reliability and accessibility.
• Collaborating with software and wider engineering teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Data pipelines

Airflow

Git

Data modelling

Client-facing experience

Job description

Data Engineer | Newcastle upon Tyne | £65,000–£130,000 + 10% Bonus

I’m working with a rapidly growing technology consulting business in Newcastle that is looking to add several experienced Data Engineers to its team due to project demand.

This is a genuinely broad engineering role. Rather than sitting in a traditional data function working on the same platform or pipeline indefinitely, you’ll work on complex, client-facing technology projects across a variety of environments.

The business works with large, sophisticated organisations on challenging technology programmes, embedding its engineers alongside client teams to solve problems spanning data, software and modern cloud engineering.

They’ve grown significantly over the last 12 months and have considerably more project demand than their current engineering team can support, so this is an ongoing area of investment rather than a single replacement hire.

What you'll be doing

You’ll work across the data engineering lifecycle, designing and building reliable data solutions while working directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Depending on the project, that could involve:

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines
• Developing data platforms and integrations
• Working with Python, SQL and modern cloud technologies
• Improving data quality, reliability and accessibility
• Testing, troubleshooting and improving existing platforms
• Working with orchestration and version-control tooling
• Understanding client requirements and translating them into technical solutions
• Working within different technology stacks depending on the project
• Collaborating closely with software, data and wider engineering teams

The important distinction is that this isn't a narrow "tickets in, code out" Data Engineering position.

You'll be expected to understand the problem you're solving, communicate with the people using the technology and take ownership of delivering the right solution.

What we're looking for

Ideally, you'll have a minium of 4 years of commercial engineering experience and a strong grounding in data engineering.

You'll likely have experience with:

• Python
• SQL
• AWS, Azure or GCP
• Building production data pipelines
• Data modelling and data platforms
• Git
• Airflow or similar orchestration technologies
• Testing, debugging and improving data reliability

We're particularly interested in engineers who have worked in consultancy, professional services or other client-facing technical environments.

What's more important is that you're technically strong, comfortable communicating with stakeholders and interested in working across different technologies rather than being tied to one stack.

The environment

This will suit someone who enjoys a fast-moving, entrepreneurial engineering environment.

The company places a significant emphasis on technical quality and deliberately maintains a high hiring bar as it grows. Engineers are given considerable ownership and are trusted to work directly with customers rather than operating behind layers of account management.

You'll work alongside experienced engineers across software and data, with the opportunity to broaden your technical skill set considerably.

Package

£65,000-£130,000 base salary (depending on level, up to £100k for Mid Level and £130k for Senior)

10% bonus

Fully Onsite in beautiful offices in Newcastle

25 days' annual leave + bank holidays

Pension contributions matched up to 6%

Private medical insurance through Bupa

Business going through considerable growth and progression opportunities