Top Data Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Design and maintain a trusted, secure, governed database of livestock data from low- and middle-income countries. Clean, harmonize, document, and structure complex datasets to support evidence-based decision-making and AI-ready insights. The role leads data quality and governance practices across complex, regulated data environments and requires strong organisation, attention to detail, and a service-oriented approach.

Build and maintain scalable data-focused REST APIs, pipelines, and fraud recommendation applications. Develop batch and streaming ingestion using Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and optionally PySpark. Deploy services on Kubernetes with KONG and ArgoCD, ensure reliability and data quality, monitor applications, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and product managers in an agile environment.

Build the companys first data stack and data products (internal analytics and customer-facing). Work across data engineering, devops, and software tasks; ship early features, improve developer experience, document proposals, and iterate based on feedback.

Develop and maintain customer-facing analytical reporting, data pipelines, and data models. Build Python applications, ensure data quality and consistency, collaborate with analytics engineers, and enable business teams to access actionable data. The role also involves cloud data warehouse optimization, infrastructure as code, software engineering best practices, and cross-functional product collaboration within an agile SaaS environment.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platform services to support analytics, ML, and product teams. Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and Kubernetes-based deployments, develop data services/APIs, and ensure data quality, observability, security, and compliance. Partner with cross-functional teams, document systems, and continuously improve performance and reliability.

Designs, builds, and maintains production data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, Python, and PySpark. Owns architecture, data modeling, CI/CD, reliability, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making. Collaborates with architects, product teams, and clients to translate requirements into robust solutions while mentoring junior engineers and improving engineering practices.

Lead the technical direction of client data engagements, designing Microsoft Fabric and Azure data platforms, pipelines, models, testing, CI/CD, and operational practices. Manage and technically guide data engineers while remaining hands-on with complex challenges, incident response, and troubleshooting. Translate client requirements into technical roadmaps, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure high-quality, commercially sound delivery using Python, PySpark, SQL, and modern data architecture patterns.

Own and expand third-party billing and usage integrations for a cloud cost platform. Build and maintain ingestion pipelines, normalize vendor data, manage orchestration and backfills, and ensure financial-grade correctness through reconciliation, deduplication, and data quality checks. Use AI throughout the engineering workflow, collaborate with product and support teams, and improve integration scalability. The role requires strong SQL and Python, cloud data warehouse experience, REST API integration expertise, and production pipeline ownership.

Leads the design, development, testing, integration, and optimization of scalable data-processing and persistence components. Establishes engineering and operational standards, ensures pipeline performance and compliance, troubleshoots systems, supports proposals, and collaborates with architects, operations, security teams, customers, and managers. Coaches and develops engineers while overseeing code quality, data models, testing, deployment readiness, and technical delivery.

Designs, develops, and supports secure cloud-based data integration solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Responsibilities include client discovery, requirements gathering, ETL and ELT development, REST API and SFTP integrations, data pipeline implementation, production monitoring, incident investigation, and reliability improvements. The role collaborates with architects, analysts, project managers, and delivery teams across multiple client engagements.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines supporting data science and advanced analytics. Manages reliable Airflow orchestration, delivers data engineering solutions using Databricks, and contributes to GitHub-based collaborative development, code reviews, and engineering standards. Partners with data scientists, supports controlled feature-led delivery, investigates root causes, and develops practical solutions. The role also values adaptability, continuous learning, and exposure to MLOps concepts and tooling.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines supporting data science and advanced analytics. Manages Airflow orchestration and delivers data engineering solutions using Databricks. Collaborates through GitHub, code reviews, and shared engineering standards in feature-led environments. Partners with data scientists, owns delivery outcomes, performs root-cause analysis, and continuously improves pipeline reliability, observability, and maintainability. Exposure to MLOps concepts and tooling is desirable.

Leads electrical design for hyperscale and mission-critical data centers across Europe. Responsibilities include managing HV/MV/LV systems, substations, utilities, consultants, permitting, project delivery, construction support, commissioning, and integrated systems testing. The role provides client-side technical leadership, reviews designs and project documents, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages risks and milestones, and ensures compliance with standards and operational requirements.

Build and operate scalable cloud data pipelines, warehouses, transformation layers, and ML production systems. Lead data infrastructure architecture, warehouse performance optimization, DataOps monitoring, CI/CD improvements, data quality testing, and large-scale data product delivery. Collaborate across teams, promote data stewardship, and support batch and streaming pipelines while deploying, serving, and monitoring machine learning models.

Leads a Data Products team designing, developing, and evolving foundational data products for energy-market modeling, analytics, and client-facing systems. Owns data product quality, reliability, governance, schemas, versioning, metadata, and data contracts. Provides technical leadership, collaborates with subject matter experts and platform engineers, establishes engineering best practices, and supports agile delivery and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Data Science Engineer, you'll lead data science projects, develop algorithms, analyze datasets, and mentor junior team members to enhance trading operations and strategies.

Lead customer underwriting proof-of-concept projects using SQL, Python, and AWS to transform, validate, and deliver insurance risk data. Match address data to reference identifiers, investigate data-quality issues, document outputs, support underwriting data platforms, and automate manual workflows. Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicate project updates, and improve scalable data processes, quality, and customer experience.

Design, build, and own scalable data pipelines from ingestion through analytics and incentive payouts. Lead data platform architecture, including Snowflake, dbt, Iceberg, and S3 workflows. Establish data quality, lineage, observability, performance, cost, and SLA standards. Partner with engineering and analysts to support telematics accuracy and driver incentive reporting. Develop maintainable data models and transformation layers while using AI coding tools to improve development speed and quality.

Build and evolve CluePoints’ enterprise data platform using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Responsibilities include migrating Azure SQL and ADF workloads, integrating SaaS and web data, developing scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines, maintaining Kimball dimensional models, and establishing CI/CD, data quality, lineage, security, and monitoring. The role partners with analytics leadership and supports trusted Power BI reporting across multiple business functions.

Own and develop the company’s Power BI reporting environment, including semantic models, dashboards, advanced DAX, Power Query transformations, governance, deployment, and performance optimization. Collaborate with Data Engineering and business stakeholders to define KPIs, validate data, improve reporting quality, and deliver scalable BI solutions. Support data architecture, data quality, ad hoc analysis, and continuous improvement across enterprise reporting assets.

Build and maintain cloud software for a Customer Data Platform, delivering complex features from design through production. Lead technical delivery, design scalable solutions, improve code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and security. Collaborate with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams, participate in on-call support, contribute to planning and roadmap discussions, and mentor engineers.

Build, maintain, and release reliable cloud software for the Customer Data Platform. Lead complex feature delivery, make architectural decisions, improve code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational reliability. Collaborate with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams, participate in on-call support, contribute to planning and OKRs, and mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and technical guidance.

Lead the architecture and scaling of Overstory’s data platform for AI-powered vegetation analysis. Design and operate large-scale geospatial and temporal data pipelines, orchestration systems, event-driven workflows, service-oriented architecture, data quality frameworks, and observability practices. Drive architectural standards, system design, scalability, reliability, and traceability while mentoring engineers and collaborating with data, ML, and product teams.

Designs and delivers scalable data pipelines and Lakehouse architectures using Databricks, Spark, PySpark, and Delta Lake. The role covers ETL/ELT, data governance, security, quality, performance optimization, cloud integration, and CI/CD. It involves technical leadership across customer programmes, architectural decision-making, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring, and supporting reliable production data solutions.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain data infrastructure, optimize performance pipelines, and ensure efficient data ingestion and querying for analysis within a high-performance AI media platform.