Data Engineer: Cloud ETL Pipelines & Analytics

Jacobs; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Development opportunities

Pension

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Data Engineer to join its Data & Digital team in the UK. You will design, build and maintain modern data platforms that enable organisations to unlock data value and inform decisions across government, defence and regulated environments.

You will work across ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS or Azure services, develop data integration components, and prepare/validate data in formats like parquet, avro and JSON. Collaboration with architects, analysts and stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Proficiency with SQL for data querying and validation.
• Experience with PySpark, Python and cloud-native services.
• Familiarity with AWS and Azure data services and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data pipelines using AWS/Azure cloud services.
• Develop data integration components including Java microservices where required.
• Prepare, transform and validate structured and semi-structured data (parquet, avro, JSON).
• Write efficient SQL for data queries on cloud platforms (Athena, Redshift, Synapse).
• Build scalable data processing with PySpark and orchestration services.
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring and logging for trusted data delivery.
• Support performance tuning of pipelines and SQL workloads.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, engineers and stakeholders.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

SQL

PySpark

Python

Cloud platforms

Data warehousing

CI/CD

Git

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Azure Functions

Azure Logic Apps

S3

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Data Engineer to join its Data & Digital team in the UK. You will design, build and maintain modern data platforms that enable organisations to unlock data value and inform decisions across government, defence and regulated environments.

You will work across ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS or Azure services, develop data integration components, and prepare/validate data in formats like parquet, avro and JSON. Collaboration with architects, analysts and stakeholders is essential.