Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
Senior Data Engineer
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471226 Senior Data Engineer
Department for Transport
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 9th August 2026
📍 Location: Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London, Swansea
(This role is suitable for hybrid working)
💷 Salary: £44,241 - £58,997
- National base salary - £44,241
- London base salary - £48,581
- With an allowance up to £14,756
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
🏆️ Available Positions: 2
Join a collaborative and forward-thinking data team focused on delivering high-impact solutions that enable better decision-making across the organisation. Working within a modern cloud-based environment, you'll be part of a department that values innovation, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. The team brings together a range of technical expertise to solve complex challenges, transform data into actionable insight, and drive meaningful change.
You'll have the opportunity to work closely with stakeholders from across the business, contributing to strategic initiatives while helping shape the future of our data capabilities. With a strong emphasis on learning, quality and teamwork, this is an exciting environment for individuals who enjoy solving problems, embracing new technologies and making a tangible impact through data.
Top Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to build and operate DfT’s production-grade data pipelines and platforms, ensuring reliability and security across our Google Cloud Platform environment.
- Manage live data services; resolving issues at pace to maintain high-quality data delivery for analysts, policy teams and external commitments.
- Take a leading role in developing and improving legacy systems, ensuring our data infrastructure is modern and meets ongoing needs.
- Support innovation within data engineering, identifying opportunities to modernise tooling, adopt emerging GCP capabilities and introduce new approaches that improve efficiency and data quality.
- Work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating technical concepts, shaping data-related decisions, and responding to business need.
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Benefits
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here.
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
- 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
- Access to the staff discount portal.
- Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
- Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
About You
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Hands-on delivery of robust, maintainable data pipelines in Google Cloud Platform or alternative cloud providers. Including building reusable components, optimising performance and cost, and applying engineering standards and high-quality coding practices.
- Proficient user of data engineering tools, including relevant languages (e.g. Python and SQL) and GCP or equivalent cloud tooling (e.g. BigQuery, Cloud Functions). Experience working with or knowledge of CI/CD (e.g. Github Actions), logging and testing, and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform).
- Contribution to engineering standards and best practice, supporting the development of maintainable, consistent technical approaches and improving quality across codebases and services.
- Experience delivering data engineering work in Agile environments, independently managing components of delivery while contributing to wider team objectives.
- Working across technical and non-technical teams to understand requirements, communicate solutions, and support delivery of change and improvement within the data landscape.
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Additional Information
The role is part of the Government Digital and Data (or Government Security Profession Career Framework) profession and utilises an enhanced Capability–Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance.
- The base pay is £44,241 (National) £48,581 (London). In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,756.
- The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.
How to Apply
👉 Read the full description and apply here: https://bit.ly/3Tuww1E
This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 9th August 2026
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