FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Lead Data Engineer to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in either London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Salford.
Our client is seeking Lead Data Engineer to take a key role in the delivery of a secure, scalable Analytical Platform for internal analyst teams. Operating within the Analysis & Corporate Services function, this role is integral to driving the department’s analytical capabilities by improving access to high-quality data and modernising analytical infrastructure.
This is a delivery-focused role requiring a hands-on engineer with strong technical capabilities in cloud infrastructure, data pipeline development, and secure data environments. The platform will enable departmental analysts to work entirely within a secure Python-based environment without reliance on local data downloads.
Responsibilities
1. Designing, developing and finalising data infrastructure to support complex analytical workloads
2. Building and maintaining secure, efficient data pipelines to ingest, process, and serve internal and external datasets
3. Implementing engineering standards and best practices, including version control, testing frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code
4. Supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) and contributing to quality assurance processes to ensure a smooth roll-out
5. Collaborating with analysts, architects and project leads to ensure platform capabilities align with user needs
6. Preparing the platform for an initial user testing phase targeted for October/November
7. Identifying and resolving performance or security issues within the data infrastructure.
8. Ensuring the long-term stability, scalability and maintainability of the platform post-deployment