Data Engineer for Digital Twin Projects

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