Data Engineer
SCCWe are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.
Role: Junior Data Engineer
Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type:Â Permanent
Salary Package: £26,227.50 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
We are looking for a curious and analytically minded Junior Data Engineer to join our team as we scale AI-powered solutions. You will work alongside AI engineers and ML ops teams to build and maintain the data foundations & pipelines that underpin intelligent systems, from entity resolution and confidence scoring to structured data pipelines and insight generation.
This role is well suited to a recent graduate or someone in the early stages of their career who has strong fundamentals and a genuine appetite to grow in a modern AI engineering environment.- Design and maintain data pipelines that ingest, clean, and normalise data from structured and unstructured sources
- Build logic and confidence scoring frameworks to produce trusted, conflict-free data records
- Clean and validate data to ensure uniformity, accuracy, and consistency across sources
- Produce exploratory data analysis and visualisations to surface trends, anomalies, and best path forward to create data ready for AI solutions
- Collaborate with AI Engineers & ML Devops to ensure clean, well-attributed data reaches downstream modelsÂ
- Analyse AI agents usage across the businessÂ
- Technologies: Python, R, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter, Dbt, Spark, PowerBi, Git, REST APIs
- Data wrangling, cleaning, and normalisation for structured & unstructured data
- Data validation to ensure uniformity and feature engineering when needed
- Entity resolution and deduplication
- Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
- Data quality assessment and monitoring
- Clear technical documentation
- Proficiency in Python
- Designing clear, insight-driven charts and graphs
- Presenting data in pictorial and summary formats
- Translating complex analysis into accessible visuals
- Building dashboards and reporting outputs
- Clear communication of technical findings to non-technical audiences
- Collaborative working with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
- Structured, methodical approach to problem solving
- Willingness to ask questions and learn from feedback
- Exposure to NLP or text classification
- Familiarity with graph & semantic layers
- Experience with cloud data platforms
- Understanding of AI data governance principles
About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.