Senior Data Engineer - GenAI, AWS & Public Sector Data

Ministry of Justice; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Civil Service Pension Scheme

25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Hybrid working

Personal development time (10%)

Learning budget £1k per person

Job summary

Ministry of Justice seeks a Senior Data Engineer to help shape data usage across the public sector. You will bridge data producers and data users, building robust pipelines and GenAI-enabled tooling on the Analytical Platform.

You will work with cross-functional teams to design, implement and operate scalable data solutions using AWS services, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, while promoting best practices and documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience building analytical pipelines and self-service data tools.
• Knowledge of AWS data services (S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Familiarity with GenAI tooling and data processing.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain ETL scripts and data pipelines.
• Develop data tooling to improve data accessibility and cataloging.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers.
• Automate deployments with GitHub Actions.
• Prepare technical documentation and promote best practices.
• Respond to incidents with clear prioritization.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

ETL design

GenAI tooling

Cloud data platforms

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Glue

Athena

S3

Lambda

LakeFormation

Job description

Ministry of Justice seeks a Senior Data Engineer to help shape data usage across the public sector. You will bridge data producers and data users, building robust pipelines and GenAI-enabled tooling on the Analytical Platform.

You will work with cross-functional teams to design, implement and operate scalable data solutions using AWS services, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, while promoting best practices and documentation.