Azure Data Engineer

• Salary: Up to £80,000
• Manchester, Leeds, Blackpool or Newcastle: hybrid, 3 days a week on site
• ****SC eligibility required (5 years continuous UK residency)****

Our client is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy that builds and runs services for UK government departments, the sort of platforms tens of millions of people end up using without ever thinking about it. This role is a hands-on engineering seat on their data team, where you'll design, build and support the Azure data platforms underneath that work.

You'll build pipelines in Azure Data Factory (ADF), model and optimise in Synapse, store and process in Data Lake, and stand the whole lot up as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, deployed through GitLab CI/CD. Three days a week on site is fixed.

Non-Negotiables

• Azure Data Factory (ADF): production pipelines you've built and owned
• Azure Synapse Analytics: development and optimisation
• Azure Data Lake: storage and processing
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Cloud data architecture and integration patterns
• ****SC eligibility: 5 years continuous UK residency****

What You'll Work With

• Cloud data platforms serving national public services
• Monitoring and troubleshooting across live Azure services
• Secure, scalable, maintainable solutions in a regulated setting
• Agile, user-centred delivery teams
• Engineers, analysts, architects and delivery leads, daily
• Automation and engineering standards you're expected to improve

Nice to Haves

• Databricks
• Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect
• Event-driven architecture and real-time data processing
• Public sector or other regulated delivery experience

Why Join / Projects

The work is public service data, so it matters and it gets used. You'll see the thing you built carrying real caseloads rather than sitting in a proof of concept, across departments and problems instead of maintaining one warehouse for years.

You get proper ownership of the platform side. Infrastructure goes in as code, pipelines go out through CI/CD, and you have room to argue for the design you think is right rather than picking up someone else's finished blueprint. Where the engineering practice needs tightening up, that's yours to take on. SC clearance opens up the more interesting projects once you're through it.

Employee Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Sponsorship through Security Check (SC) clearance
• Generous annual leave plus public holiday
• Discounts and rewards platform