Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A hands-on Azure data engineering position within a digital consultancy delivering large-scale public-sector services. The engineer will build production data pipelines, model and optimize data in a cloud analytics platform, manage data lake workloads and provision infrastructure with Terraform through GitLab CI/CD. Three days per week are required on site, and UK residency history is required for security eligibility.
Highlights
Hands-on Azure data engineering role supporting large-scale public-sector digital services. Offers work across data pipelines, analytics platforms and Infrastructure as Code, with a clearly defined hybrid schedule.
Description
Azure Data Engineer | Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Terraform, GitLab | Award-Winning Public Services Consultancy | ****SC eligible ****
Salary: Up to £80,000Manchester, 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
Strong hands-on Microsoft AzureAzure Data Factory (ADF): production pipelines you've built and ownedAzure Synapse Analytics: development and optimisationAzure Data Lake: storage and processingTerraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)GitLab, including GitLab CI/CDData pipeline development: design, build, tune, fixCloud data architecture and integration patterns****SC eligibility: 5 years continuous UK residency****
What You'll Work With
Cloud data platforms serving national public servicesMonitoring and troubleshooting across live Azure servicesSecure, scalable, maintainable solutions in a regulated settingAgile, user-centred delivery teamsEngineers, analysts, architects and delivery leads, dailyAutomation and engineering standards you're expected to improve
Nice to Haves
DatabricksApache Kafka and Kafka ConnectEvent-driven architecture and real-time data processingPublic 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
Salary: £80,000Private health insurancePension schemeSponsorship through Security Check (SC) clearanceGenerous annual leave plus public holidayDiscounts and rewards platform
Azure Data Engineer | Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Terraform, GitLab | Award-Winning Public Services Consultancy | ****SC eligible ****
