Senior Data Engineer

Role: Senior Data EngineerSalary/Rate: £600-700 per day inside IR35 Location: hybrid multiple locations available, 2 days on siteContract Duration: 4 months, potential to extend

We are currently looking for a Senior Data Engineer for our government client. This Senior Data Engineer role is hybrid, based between 2 days per week on site and the remainder of the week working remotely. Office locations include most major towns, with London being a preference.

The contract for the Senior Data Engineer position is for 4-months with potential to extend, operating inside IR35.

Security Clearance: Security Check ("SC Clearance")

This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.

Essential skills/experience required:

• Strong experience designing, building and maintaining data pipelines using modern, cloud-based tools and practices
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering tasks
• Experience with DBT and a good understanding of data modelling approaches (e.g. star schema, dimensional modelling)
• Familiarity with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Comfortable working with AWS services such as Glue and S3, or equivalent cloud infrastructure
• Experience using version control and CI/CD tools like Git and GitHub Actions
• Confident working independently and taking ownership of problems and solutions
• Comfortable engaging directly with stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, to understand needs, share ideas and shape solutions
• Willingness to work closely with users, gather feedback, and iterate quickly to improve products and data quality
• Adaptable, curious, and open to experimenting with new tools, techniques and ways of working, including AI coding assistants and lean, cross-functional approaches

Role/responsibilities:

• Collaborate with teams across performance, data, digital, and portfolio functions to enhance data collection, structuring, and usage.
• Champion data-driven decision-making.
• Promote integrated leadership through improved data practices.
• Contribute to solving the challenge of inconsistent performance metrics across the organisation.
• Support the development of a modern, user-focused framework for measuring performance and organisational health, covering areas such as delivery, finance, people, risk, and user satisfaction.
• Help build and refine a dashboard for senior leaders to visualise key metrics and support collective decision-making, using a flexible, code-first approach, applying lean, cross-functional, and product operating model principles.
• Embed AI-native workflows using tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and agentic assistants to enhance digital delivery.
• Strengthen data foundations by reviewing and modernising existing data pipelines, replacing manual processes with automated solutions via the Analytical Platform.
• Reduce the burden on teams for data collection and sharing by retrieving more data from source systems.
• Use dashboards not just for reporting, but as tools to highlight data issues, surface priorities, and drive continuous improvement.

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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans, spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses, partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, theywill interview the best candidates from within that group. If you qualify, please notify us on igs at circlerecruitment dot com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview.

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