Hybrid Lead Data Engineer — Data Quality & Pipelines

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

25 days annual leave

Public holidays + privilege day

Job summary

Home Office Digital is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and deliver robust data pipelines that support analytics and BI across the organisation.

The role focuses on complex data integrations, ETL automation, and governance, with leadership responsibilities and a 60% in-office time expectation. You will collaborate with multiple teams to implement the data strategy and promote best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and delivery of data engineering projects.
• Experience translating business needs into scalable data pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Python data tooling and NLP basics.

Responsibilities

• Lead data sources and improve data quality for analytics.
• Develop and support end-to-end data workflows and ETL processes.
• Manage stakeholders and promote a data service culture.
• Ensure compliance with privacy and security requirements.
• Coach and develop the data engineering team and roadmap.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Data engineering

Python

ETL

Cloud data

API integration

SQL

Power BI

Tools

Git

Github

CI/CD

AWS

Docker

PostgreSQL

Job description

Home Office Digital is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and deliver robust data pipelines that support analytics and BI across the organisation.

The role focuses on complex data integrations, ETL automation, and governance, with leadership responsibilities and a 60% in-office time expectation. You will collaborate with multiple teams to implement the data strategy and promote best practices.