SC Cleared Data Engineer - Contract
Rate: Up to £650 per day (Inside IR35)
Location: London or Manchester (1-2 days per week on-site)
Contract: 6 months
Clearance: Active SC required
We're hiring an experienced SC-cleared Data Engineer to support a large-scale central government data programme. This role focuses on building, optimising, and maintaining secure, cloud-based data pipelines to enable analytics, reporting, and insight across complex government environments.
You'll work as part of a multidisciplinary data team alongside architects, analysts, and platform engineers, contributing to modern data platforms spanning AWS and Microsoft ecosystems, with a strong emphasis on scalable, well-governed data ingestion and transformation.
Key Requirements
1. Active Security Clearance (SC) - must be current and transferable
2. Proven experience as a Data Engineer within central government or regulated environments
3. Strong experience with AWS data services, including:
* Athena, Glue, and S3
* Building and managing ETL/ELT pipelines
4. Experienc...