Senior Data Platform Engineer: Cloud ETL & PySpark

Jacobs; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global network

Safety and inclusion culture

Flexible working

Development opportunities

Mentoring and communities

Hybrid working policy

Job summary

Jacobs is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to advance our data & Digital capabilities across government, defence and regulated environments. You will design, build and maintain modern data platforms, working with cloud-native services and a multidisciplinary team.

You will develop ETL pipelines, data integration components, and Python/Java microservices, ensuring data quality and reliable delivery across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Experience building data platforms in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of data pipelines, data quality and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines using AWS or Azure cloud-native services.
• Develop data integration components, including Java-based microservices when required.
• Prepare, transform and validate structured and semi-structured data (parquet, avro, JSON).
• Write SQL to query and optimise data across Athena, Redshift, Synapse.
• Build scalable data processing with PySpark, Python and cloud orchestration.

Skills

PySpark

SQL

Python

Java

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Git

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Data Factory

Synapse

Glue

Lambda

Step Functions

S3

Data Lake Storage Gen2

Job description

Jacobs is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to advance our data & Digital capabilities across government, defence and regulated environments. You will design, build and maintain modern data platforms, working with cloud-native services and a multidisciplinary team.

You will develop ETL pipelines, data integration components, and Python/Java microservices, ensuring data quality and reliable delivery across complex environments.