Lead Data Engineer 5 views

📍 Location: Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, Swansea (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: £57,515 – £80,400

• Plus an additional DDaT allowance up to: £22,885
• A Civil Service Pensionwith an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Working as part of a talented and collaborative team, your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the build and operation of DfT’s production‑grade data pipelines and platforms, ensuring reliability and security across our Google Cloud Platform environment.
• Own and manage live data services, triaging and resolving issues at pace to maintain high‑quality data delivery for analysts, policy teams and external commitments.
• Drive innovation within data engineering, identifying opportunities to modernise tooling, adopt emerging GCP capabilities and introduce new approaches that improve efficiency and data quality.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic 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.
• DfT prioritises investing in our project delivery professionals, because successful projects begin with skilled people. We offer funding for industry recognised qualifications e.g. APM PMQ, PRINCE2, and MSP, alongside leadership programmes. You will have access to targeted technical training, support for project delivery accreditation, and potential funding toward Chartered Project Professional (ChPP). From day one, mentoring, coaching, and the Government Online Skills Tool (GOST) are available to support your learning and development throughout your career in DfT.

About you

You will be an experienced data engineer with deep technical foundations and expertise in both Python and SQL. You will also be highly proficient in Google Cloud Platform, or an expert user of AWS or Azure with a willingness to apply your skills to a new cloud platform. You combine hands on engineering excellence with the ability to communicate complex ideas simply, engaging effectively with a wide range of technical and non technical stakeholders. You are comfortable balancing the demands of operating reliable, production grade data services with delivering innovation: shaping new approaches, modernising legacy systems, and driving improvements in data quality and tooling. Alongside this, you bring thoughtful planning and change management skills, helping the organisation evolve its data capabilities while ensuring continuity, stability, and high quality outcomes across DfT.

📅 Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 8th February 2026