Active SC - Data Engineer - Remote

Job Title: Data Engineer
Rate: £500 (Inside IR35)
Duration:6 months
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active SC
Stages: 1 Stage

Must Have Active SC

What you'll do

• Engineer production-grade data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric (One Lake/Delta Lake, Data Factory, Synapse Notebook Data Engineering), using PySpark/Spark SQL/Python and SQL, with a focus on performance, resilience, testing, and observability.
• Support reporting & MI use cases, including transformations and data models that feed downstream tools (eg, Power BI).
• Own CI/CD and version control practices (eg, Git/GitLab), review code, and enforce engineering standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers, provide technical guidance/code reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions across squads.
• Work in Agile delivery, collaborating across product, data, and platform teams using Jira/Confluence; translate requirements into robust engineering tasks.
• Embed security and compliance by design, aligning with BPSS/SC constraints and department data-handling policies.

Essential skills & experience

• Hands-on expertise in Azure/Fabric: Microsoft Fabric (One Lake/Delta Lake, Data Factory, Synapse Notebook Data Engineering), using PySpark/Spark SQL/Python and SQL for large-scale batch processing.
• Data engineering at scale in government or similarly complex domains, including performance tuning and data-quality management.
• CI/CD & DevOps: pipelines and IaC (eg, Terraform), automated testing, and release governance.
• Version control & collaboration: Git/GitLab, code review, branching strategies, and trunk/PR workflows.
• APIs & integration: building/consuming data services to move and expose data safely and reliably.
• Agile ways of working with Jira/Confluence; clear stakeholder communication and concise technical documentation.
• Security clearance: BPSS (minimum) and SC-cleared or SC-clearable for UK government work.