Role: Data Engineer Location: Belfast Hybrid Engagement: Permanent Hiring Timeline: Q1 2026 The Opportunity This is an opportunity to join a fast growing technology business building a cloud based platform, tightly integrated with purpose built hardware. The product operates in high trust, real world environments where data integrity, security, and reliability are critical. As the platform continues to scale, the engineering team is investing in strengthening how data is ingested, processed, and managed across the system. Joining in Q1 is ideal timing, as core data foundations are in place and the next phase is focused on scale, robustness, and insight. The Role As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining reliable, production grade data pipelines supporting data generated at the edge and processed in the cloud. You will work closely with backend, platform, and firmware teams to ensure data flows from device to cloud are secure, traceable, and performant. This role suits an engineer who enjoys working with real world data, understands the importance of auditability, and is comfortable operating in environments where correctness matters as much as speed. What You Will Do Design and build scalable data pipelines ingesting data from hardware devices and edge systems Work with high volume event based data, time series data, and rich metadata Ensure data integrity, traceability, and auditability across the full data lifecycle Collaborate with backend and firmware engineers to define data contracts and schemas Support analytics, reporting, and operational insight use cases Optimise data storage, retention policies, and performance in line with platform requirements Monitor and improve the reliability of data pipelines in production Contribute to data architecture decisions as the platform continues to evolve What You Bring Commercial experience working as a Data Engineer or in a data focused backend role Strong SQL skills and solid data modelling fundamentals Experience building and operating production data pipelines Comfort working in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure Understanding of event driven or streaming data architectures Strong focus on data quality, security, and governance Ability to collaborate across software and hardware focused teams Nice to Have Experience working with data generated by IoT or hardware devices Exposure to video, media, or telemetry data Experience in regulated or security sensitive environments Familiarity with message queues or streaming platforms Why Join Now ? This is a key data engineering hire at a point where platform scale and maturity are front and centre. Decisions made in 2026 will shape the long term reliability and trustworthiness of the product. Why OCHO ? OCHO represents the largest selection of technology roles of any tech recruitment firm in Northern Ireland. If this role isn't quite right, I'm always happy to meet for a coffee to talk through career moves and opportunities in 2026. To discuss this role in confidence, connect with Ryan Quinn on LinkedIn. Skills: Data Engineer Python ETL ELT