Staff Data Engineer

Location: London, UK; hybrid work with attendance at the London office one or two days per week

Salary: Up to £150k base

Company

Fast-growing AI company mapping global supply chains for governments, customs agencies, insurers, and large enterprises.

What you will do

• Build and operate data-ingestion and entity-resolution pipelines for dedicated government-client platforms.
• Work with customers to map, standardize, and integrate their data with supply-chain data.
• Design architectures and systems for major initiatives, splitting time approximately 50/50 between architecture and hands-on engineering.
• Improve tooling, manage migrations into secure customer environments, and support scalable product deployments.
• Handle compliance activities including penetration testing and security reviews.
• Coordinate larger engagements between internal engineering and customer-facing teams while leading engineering practices and mentoring others.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or a closely related role.
• Hands-on Python and Databricks experience, or an equivalent stack, plus Spark and SQL.
• Experience putting data pipelines into production from design through monitoring and maintenance.
• Strong data-wrangling skills, including building complex models from multiple sources and schemas.
• Comfort working with cloud environments such as AWS or Azure and services including EC2, S3, IAM, and Dockerized services.
• Strong understanding of engineering best practices, data security, governance, and the wider system impact of pipelines.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and communicating with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Flexible, self-driven startup mindset with willingness to take on multiple responsibilities.
• Eligibility for UK Security Check (SC) clearance, requiring 5+ years of UK residency. Existing SC clearance is a strong advantage.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying ML pipelines.
• Experience managing a data platform.
• Public-sector experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with one or two days per week in the London office and the remaining time from home.
• Lead-level role combining architecture, system design, and hands-on engineering.
• Opportunity to support government engagements across the UK and Europe.
• Startup environment with broad responsibilities and emphasis on engineering best practices.

Hiring process

• Contact the recruiter at j.vanbaalen@doghouse.nl to express interest.