Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year Requirements: Demonstrated expertise in building scalable, cloud-native data platforms on AWS, leveraging EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Glue (Data Quality, Studio, DataBrew), Kinesis, Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, CloudWatch, and Macie for secure, event-driven data solutions Experienced across core data domains, including: Data Engineering: ETL design, data cleansing, and batch/streaming pipelines Data Platforms: data lakes, warehouses, and metadata management Analytics: OLAP, reporting, and visualisation (Power BI, etc.) Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, etc. Strong focus on delivering scalable, governed, and insight-ready data solutions Responsibilities: Develop ETL pipelines using AWS Glue, Kinesis, and Step Functions Manage and optimise large-scale data lakes with S3, Athena, and Lake Formation Implement robust data quality processes using Glue Data Quality and machine learning models Design event-driven architectures with EventBridge and Lambda Ensure data security through Macie, KMS, and advanced encryption frameworks Design and implement a modern data infrastructure Develop and scale a governed, comprehensive self-service data platform serving over 3,500 staff Create real-time analytics solutions for university-wide operational insights Design and build scalable machine learning operations pipelines for predictive analytics Spearhead the adoption of DataOps and MLOps methodologies Explore applications of emerging technologies in data processing Engage with the open-source community in data engineering projects Provide mentorship and technical leadership to a team of data engineers Technologies: AWS AWS Glue Lambda Cloud CloudWatch EC2 ETL Support Machine Learning Oracle Power BI SQL Security More: We are building a brand-new University Data Hub in the AWS cloud to replace our old on-premises solution and transform our Data & Insights capability. Our platform will integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, support data quality and governance, act as a single source of truth, and underpin analytics, reports, dashboards, and future machine learning capability. We offer a full-time permanent role with a salary starting from £53,189 rising to £62,335, plus a market supplement of up to £5,800 at our discretion. We provide a generous pension, annual leave, flexible working, professional development opportunities, and relocation, visa reimbursement, and interest-free loan support for eligible staff. We are an inclusive university with staff from over 60 nations, a Silver Athena SWAN award, and strong commitments to diversity, disability confidence, autism friendliness, and safer recruitment. last updated 24 week of 2026