Senior Data Engineer – Hybrid, Data Pipelines & Governance

Government Recruitment Service; Exeter; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Exeter is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead development and governance of our enterprise data architecture. You will align technology with strategy, digital transformation and secure-by-design principles to support long-term capability and value for money.

You will work with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Azure services to deliver secure, governed data solutions, mentor engineers and collaborate with data scientists and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• design, develop and maintain complex data ingestion, transformation and integration pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, OneLake and organisational data sources
• develop reusable engineering components, trusted datasets and data products to support analytics, reporting, Azure AI and machine-learning workloads
• implement validation, reconciliation and quality controls, ensuring that data solutions meet agreed lineage, metadata, governance and security standards
• implement CI/CD, automated testing and DataOps practices, optimising pipelines for performance, scalability, resilience and cost
• monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, lead root-cause analysis and work with development security operations (DevSecOps), artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) and Application Support to improve operational reliability
• work with data scientists, analysts, delivery teams and suppliers to translate requirements into robust solutions, supported by appropriate documentation and recovery procedures
• provide technical leadership and management support to other engineers through mentoring, peer review and technical assurance, contributing to engineering standards and continuous improvement.

Skills

Data engineering

Data governance

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Dynamics 365

Dataverse

Azure

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Exeter is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead development and governance of our enterprise data architecture. You will align technology with strategy, digital transformation and secure-by-design principles to support long-term capability and value for money.

You will work with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Azure services to deliver secure, governed data solutions, mentor engineers and collaborate with data scientists and suppliers.