Data Engineer
£54,267 - £57,402 per annum

Join Newham's Data Team as a Data Engineer and play a key role in delivering the Council's modern Enterprise Data Platform.

Working with Microsoft Fabric, Azure and SQL technologies, you will design, build and support scalable data pipelines and data products that enable high-quality reporting, analytics and data-driven decision making across the organisation.

You will work with a wide range of Council services and stakeholders to integrate data from multiple operational systems, improve data quality and deliver robust, reusable solutions that support better services for residents.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with modern cloud data technologies while helping shape the Council's strategic data platform and engineering standards.

Please view JD here

closing date: 24th August 2026

Additional Information

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