DataEngineer Salary: up to £35,000 Location:Newark -Home-based with occasional travel to the Newark office / UK Full time: 35 hours per week (Mondays to Fridays) Maternity Cover Contract until April 2027 Closing date for applications: 1st March 2026 First interview: :12th / 13th March 2026 Second interview: 24th March 2026
About Us
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgroundsand allwalks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have morethan 944,000 members, over 38,000 volunteers, 3,600 staff and 600 trustees. There are46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-basedindependentlycharity with itsown legal identity, formed by groups of people getting together and working with others tomake a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live andwork.
Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of theRoyal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charityin its own right foundedin 1912 and oneof the founding members of IUCN the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.
The next few years will be critical indeterminingwhat kind of world we all live in. Weneed to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if weare to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big,bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others andsupport them to organise within their own communities.
About You
As Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the work of The Wildlife Trusts bymaintainingand enhancing our data pipelines and infrastructure. You willbe responsible forensuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of the federation wide data service system, a datalakehouse,providingkeyinsights andsolutions to support decision-making across the organisation and federation, responding to the needs ofWildlife Trusts and the delivery of our 2030 Strategy.
Working collaboratively with various teams, you will develop data management solutions, new usecases, forecastdatavolumes, andensure cost-effective service maintenance. You will be integral in enabling usto leveragedata for operational and strategic success and in supporting an excellent community ofpractice withinthe federation of Wildlife Trusts.
As Data Engineer, you willbe responsible formanaging and optimising data pipelines, cloudservices, andproviding data-driven solutions to support business needs. To excel in this role, you should behighly motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate about people focused data engineering and analysis. You willhave experiencein a data engineering role, ideally with practical experience or the ability to upskill in cloud serviceslikeAzure, Databricksand ESRI, as well as excellent provenproficiency ,SQLand Python. Ideally youwould havea familiarity with developing pipelines which support Analysts who use RStudio Power BI and/or GIS. You will have experience or the ability to up-skill in administering data services linked to theData Lakehousewholistically, such as GitHub, Power BI.
You will work closely with and on behalf of teams across the Wildlife Trusts to ensure our data systems are secure, optimised, scalable, and cost-efficient. You should have a solid understanding of data security to ensure compliance with best practices. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaborativelywith cross-functional teams are essential
If you are a problem solver with a can-do attitude and a passion for data, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to become our Data Solutions Engineer.
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmaticactivismand strength indiversity. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims, we are not judgmental and are inclusive. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector,including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creatinga movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare ofchildren and adults at risk. For applicable roles, applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past
employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level. RSWT take our Safeguardingresponsibilities extremely seriously. Please click here to read our commitment statement.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with adisability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require anyadjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.
RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitmentpledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the postthrough to the next stage of recruitment.
Please do not use artificial intelligence tools toassistyou to complete the application form. We maynot accept applications that have been completed utilising AI tools.
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