Senior Data Engineer - Graph Pipelines, Hybrid UK

Humand Talent; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Humand Talent is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own a core data function at the heart of client delivery. This role goes beyond keeping pipelines running, as you will inherit an existing pipeline framework and lead improvements for a scalable future.

Based in Oxfordshire with hybrid work, you will be in the office 4 days a week for the first six months, reducing to 3 days per week thereafter. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship and be likely to meet BPSS / SC

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools.
• Ability to own technical decisions and work independently.
• Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping your own direction.
• Interest in data modelling, knowledge graphs, or semantic technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own, assess, improve, or rebuild existing ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Build reliable data workflows using Python.
• Work with orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar.
• Improve data quality, validation, lineage, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with consultants and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help translate messy business/client data into structured models.
• Learn and apply knowledge graph / semantic web technologies.
• Work with the software team on coding standards, reviews, and best practice.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Workflow orchestration

Own technical decisions

Stakeholder communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Data modelling/knowledge graphs

Tools

Python

Airflow

Job description

Humand Talent is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own a core data function at the heart of client delivery. This role goes beyond keeping pipelines running, as you will inherit an existing pipeline framework and lead improvements for a scalable future.

Based in Oxfordshire with hybrid work, you will be in the office 4 days a week for the first six months, reducing to 3 days per week thereafter. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship and be likely to meet BPSS / SC