19568 - Senior Data Engineer (National -UK)


Company:	Ministry of Justice
Salary:	£42,914 - £53,081
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	UK, NP10 8FZ
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 3 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Jul 2026
Closing date:	1 Aug 2026

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Summary

Senior Data Engineer

Location: National*

Closing Date: 10/08/2026

Interviews: Rolling – from w/c 13th July – w/c 31st Aug

Grade: SEO (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:

London: £49,325 - £53,081 (which may include an allowance of up to £7440)

National: £42,914 - £46,182 (which may include an allowance of up to £9424)

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy Number: 19568

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.

We’re recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer here at the Ministry of Justice, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data & Analytics Engineering community.

This role aligns against Senior Data Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector. Data engineers at MoJ play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision-making. We're looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the Ministry of Justice.

You will work in a team of Data Engineers, alongside Analytics Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, developing analytical pipelines and self-service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform. A summary of the type of work the teams are involved in can be found in our handbook.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.

Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.

Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.

A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.

Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Data Engineer your work might involve:

designing and building robust and scalable automated data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems

recognising opportunities to reuse and re-engineer data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use

designing and writing ETL (extract, transform, load) scripts and code to ensure the ETL process performs optimally

working with data users to understand and translate their needs into technical requirements

using a range of AWS services to deploy your solutions in a reproducible, sustainable manner

using infrastructure-as-code to deploy AWS cloud infrastructure

developing and optimising code, tools and services that enable people to use data effectively

You may also be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

designing and maintaining technical documentation

creating and promoting best practices within the team and wider

responding to incident reports, ensuring relevant prioritisation and detail to allow for effective investigation

developing novel solutions to fit the needs of a range of stakeholders

supporting the Ministry of Justice's Analytical Platform users to use our data and tools

initiating team-building and development initiatives

line managing a more junior colleague

We welcome applications from anyone with the skills we consider make a good data engineer. You may not currently be in a data engineering role and that's ok. Many of our team members have a background in analysis, software engineering, data science, and more.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential

working in a technical team, preferably one that uses Python and SQL, as well as strong technical skills in these languages

understanding of the software development lifecycle, including testing (e.g. pytest), version control (e.g. git) and CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions)

working with a range of data sources

working with data, such as data wrangling, analysis or manipulation

communicating with stakeholders, and translating user needs into technical requirements

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

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