Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Data Pipelines & Analytics

Jacobs; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Professional development

Mentoring & coaching

Hybrid work model

Pension & holidays

Job summary

Jacobs is recruiting a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data & Digital team in the UK. You will design, build and maintain modern data platforms across government, defence and regulated environments, collaborating with engineers, architects and client stakeholders.

You’ll work on ETL/ELT pipelines with AWS and Azure services, develop Java microservices, write SQL for analytics platforms, and implement data quality and monitoring to ensure trusted data delivery.

Qualifications

• Design, build and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines on AWS or Azure.
• Develop and support data integration components, including Java microservices where required.
• Write SQL to query and validate data on cloud analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain reliable ETL/ELT pipelines using cloud-native services.
• Develop data integration components and Java microservices where required.
• Prepare, transform and validate structured and semi-structured data.

Skills

ETL/ELT development

Data quality

Git & CI/CD

Agile delivery

Senior project leadership

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

S3 / Data Lake Storage Gen2

PySpark

SQL (Athena, Redshift, Synapse)

Python

Java

Job description

Jacobs is recruiting a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data & Digital team in the UK. You will design, build and maintain modern data platforms across government, defence and regulated environments, collaborating with engineers, architects and client stakeholders.

You’ll work on ETL/ELT pipelines with AWS and Azure services, develop Java microservices, write SQL for analytics platforms, and implement data quality and monitoring to ensure trusted data delivery.