Data Engineer

We are seeking experienced Data Engineers to join our growing team within a large, long-standing public-sector partnership. In this pivotal role, you will contribute to data acquisition, preparation and management projects, helping to modernise services and deliver secure, reliable data products at scale.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape engineering design, grow capability across our teams, and deliver real value for our clients.

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• Design and implement robust, secure and performant data integration solutions (batch and/or near-real-time).
  
• Build, operate and improve data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, curation) with monitoring, alerting and SLAs.
  
• Collaborate with product teams and client stakeholders to refine requirements and align decisions to NFRs (cost, performance, security).
  
• Support incident resolution and ensure service continuity.
  
• Share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to Capgemini’s engineering communities of practice.
  
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and work cross-functionally with engineers, analysts and business teams.
  

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• Strong SQL and hands‑on experience with data modelling.
  
• Hands‑on with ETL/ELT tooling (at least one of Talend, Pentaho DI, Informatica, AWS Glue, or SAS).
  
• Experience with databases/data platforms (ideally Oracle or Cloudera).
  
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
  
• Good experience with programming/scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash).
  
• Strong grasp of data engineering fundamentals, including integration, transformation, orchestration, and version control.
  
• Excellent client‑facing and consultancy skills.
  

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.

To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free‑thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.

We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.

By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business.

So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society.

It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs.

It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

When you join Capgemini, you don’t just start a new job. You become part of something bigger.

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