Senior Data Engineer - Manchester

Senior Data Engineer

• Senior Data Engineer
• Hybrid-working (Manchester + Home-based)
• c£60,000 to £75,000 per year (DOE)
• Plus an excellent company benefits package (including Private Healthcare, Bonuses, Professional Accreditations and Subscriptions, 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, etc.)

The Opportunity:

We are supporting a leading IT Consultancy operating at the forefront of digital services and transformation across the UK public sector are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in designing and delivering modern, scalable data platforms that support critical national services.

Working within collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams, you will take ownership of end-to-end data engineering delivery across greenfield and transformation initiatives. You will influence technical direction, guide engineering best practice, and support the development of high-quality, robust data services that operate at enterprise scale.

You will be consulting across modern cloud ecosystems and data technologies, with opportunities to deepen expertise in Python, SQL, cloud-native data tooling, orchestration platforms and streaming technologies across AWS, Azure and GCP.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience delivering production-grade data engineering solutions within complex environments
• Strong Python skills for building, testing and operating scalable data pipelines
• Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Strong SQL expertise and experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar
• Hands‑on Kafka (or equivalent streaming) and workflow orchestration (Airflow) experience
• Strong understanding of data architecture patterns including data lakes, warehouses and event-driven architectures
• Experience of consulting across Agile delivery environments, implementing data quality, validation and monitoring frameworks

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, build and delivery of data platforms and services across the full engineering lifecycle
• Own technical delivery of data pipelines, models and platform components, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable and maintainable
• Design, develop and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform and optimise large-scale datasets
• Build and operate event‑driven architectures (Kafka) and orchestrate workflows (Airflow)
• Apply strong data architecture principles across data lakes, warehouses and event-driven solutions
• Develop and maintain streaming pipelines using technologies such as Kafka
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions using tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Ensure data quality, validation and governance processes are built into engineering workflows
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients and stakeholders (client-facing), translating business requirements into robust engineering solutions
• Support delivery planning activities, including estimation, risk identification and dependency management
• Mentor and support other engineers, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence

Applications:

To learn more about this newly created opportunity consulting on a permanent basis as a Senior Data Engineer based in the Manchester area; please call and speak with Edward Laing here at ISR Recruitment on 07436 071 872 or please send through a copy of your latest online profile and/or CV (edward@isr.uk.com) for an immediate call back in the strictest confidence.