Data Governance jobs in United Kingdom

Data Engineer / London OR Newcastle / Hybrid / Contract

We’re recruiting a Data Engineer to join a growing data function, playing a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data infrastructure that supports analytics, insight, and automation across the organisation.

This is an opportunity to work on modern data platforms, integrating multiple data sources and enabling high-quality, accessible data for downstream users.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources
• Ensure data quality, consistency, performance, and security across platforms
• Collaborate with analytics engineers, data analysts, and stakeholders to support data modelling and transformation
• Monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot data infrastructure and pipelines
• Produce clear documentation of data architecture and engineering processes

• Build and manage robust data infrastructure for large-scale data ingestion and processing
• Develop automated, reliable data pipelines aligned to best practices
• Optimise ETL workflows for performance and scalability
• Implement data governance, access controls, and security standards
• Support self-service analytics by enabling clean, well-structured datasets
• Proactively identify and resolve data issues and pipeline failures

• Strong experience designing and building ETL workflows and data pipelines
• Experience integrating data from APIs, databases, and cloud services
• Solid understanding of data modelling and data warehousing concepts
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including performance optimisation

If you’re interested in the role, then please apply!