# Data Engineer for Digital Twin Projects

**Company**: Digital Catapult
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: c. £35,000 - 45,000 pa
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will be responsible for extending and maintaining the data backbone of the UK Digital Twin Centre's projects and programmes.

You will transform complex, real-world data from sensors, devices and industrial systems into reliable, scalable data platforms that enable impactful digital twin solutions.

Working across a range of digital twin initiatives, you will help shape data architectures, pipelines and services from initial concept through to delivery.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines that bring data from sensors, devices and other sources into digital twin platforms.

- Design and manage data architectures, including the selection and optimisation of data lakes and relational and non-relational databases, while contributing to data modelling, governance and wider architecture decisions across UKDTC projects.

- Clean, transform, and structure data, making sound decisions on data architecture, storage, and database technologies.

- Develop and optimise telemetry and data integration pipelines to support reliable, scalable digital twin solutions.

- Evaluate emerging data technologies and recommend approaches that improve performance, scalability and maintainability.

- Collaborate with industry partners and multidisciplinary teams to understand challenges and translate requirements into practical technical solutions.

## Requirements

- Technical Background: A strong software engineering, data engineering, or related technical background, with core proficiency in Python and SQL.

- Pipeline Expertise: Experience designing and building data pipelines, ETL processes, and data integration solutions.

- Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud data services and platforms, such as Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent technologies.

- Data Modelling: Knowledge of data modelling and hands-on experience working with both relational and non-relational databases.

- IoT/Streaming: Experience working with telemetry, IoT, or streaming data.

- Collaboration & Autonomy: Comfortable working autonomously, shaping technical solutions, and collaborating effectively with partners, clients, and multidisciplinary teams.

## Benefits

- Salary: c. £35,000 - 45,000 pa (subject to experience) + discretionary bonus + competitive benefits package

- Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays and 3 days between Christmas and New Year

- Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary

- Discretionary company bonus

- 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits that work for you, including health cash plan, Private Medical Insurance; buying holiday, topping up your pension

- E-Vehicle Scheme; Cycle2Work; Tech Scheme; Gym Discounts; Give As you Earn; PerkPal

- Life insurance 4x salary

- Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice

- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

- Hybrid working - with great offices to work from 2 days per week with some roles needing to be onsite more regularly to ensure the successful delivery of our work

- Investment in your ongoing learning and development with us

- Company social events throughout the year and free office snacks

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- data engineering
- ETL pipelines
- data modelling
- cloud data services

### Nice to have
- Java
- JavaScript

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