Data Engineer — Cloud Data Platforms & AI Pipelines

Data to Insight; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Salford City Council seeks an experienced data engineer to design, build and operate modern data platforms in a public sector context. You will own data pipelines, lifecycle management and governance, delivering robust, scalable solutions that support analytics and AI use cases.

You will work with lakehouse-style architectures and cloud platforms, ensuring data is secure, high quality and fit for purpose across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and operating data platforms in production environments.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and data pipelines.
• Ability to balance robustness, scalability and cost while ensuring data quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and run data engineering solutions supporting analytics, insight and AI use cases.
• Take ownership of data pipelines and data lifecycle management.
• Shape how data is ingested, structured, governed and shared across the organisation.

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Data architectures

Job description

Salford City Council seeks an experienced data engineer to design, build and operate modern data platforms in a public sector context. You will own data pipelines, lifecycle management and governance, delivering robust, scalable solutions that support analytics and AI use cases.

You will work with lakehouse-style architectures and cloud platforms, ensuring data is secure, high quality and fit for purpose across the organisation.