The Data Engineer will build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring quality and performance while collaborating with teams to support platform evolution and product delivery.
As a Data Engineer in the Platform Delivery team, you will play a key role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that underpins Xantura’s core products. You’ll develop robust, secure, and scalable data pipelines, support the ingestion and transformation of complex datasets, and work closely with engineers, QA, and product teams to enable the ongoing evolution of our platform.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring data flows smoothly through our systems, is well-documented and high quality, and supports downstream use cases including analytics, reporting, and decision support. You’ll help shape our engineering practices as we scale, and support operational delivery through strong technical implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Data engineering and infrastructure
Design, build and maintain data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using tools such as Azure Data Factory and SQL Server
Ingest data from a variety of structured and semi-structured sources, ensuring scalability, performance, and data quality
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines to proactively detect and resolve issues
Manage and version database schemas and transformations to support evolving platform requirements
Automate repeatable processes to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability
Platform delivery and product support
Work closely with software engineers and product managers to ensure data components align with product architecture and roadmap
Support the configuration and rollout of technical components to new and existing clients, including setup of pipelines and data validation
Provide technical troubleshooting and support for platform bugs and data issues
Write and maintain internal documentation for data processes, configuration, and engineering practices
Collaboration and continuous improvement
Collaborate across Platform, QA, and Customer Success to ensure smooth handover and deployment
Identify and implement opportunities to improve data infrastructure, tools, practice
Contribute to team standards around testing, code review, and deployment for data-related components
Support knowledge sharing and upskilling across the wider engineering team
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
A degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Computer Science, Data or Software Engineering, Maths, Statistics, etc, or equivalent practical experience
3+ years’ professional experience in a data engineering, platform engineering, or similar technical role
Strong technical expertise in:
- Data models, database design development and segmentation techniques
- SQL – including complex queries, performance tuning, and stored procedures
- Python – scripting and automation of data workflows
- ETL/ELT frameworks – especially Azure Data Factory or similar tools
- Data quality management, validation, and alerting techniques
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
Clear communication and collaboration skills - able to write reports, present findings to stakeholders, and work productively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
A continuous improvement mindset, you look for opportunities to improve our tools, documentation, or ways of workingA passion for social impact – you’re excited about what we’re doing and driven to help Xantura succeed
Bonus Points if you have:
- Experience working with the public sector (local or central government) or as a vendor/consultant to public sector clients
- Familiarity with privacy, security, and information governance in data projects
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure as code
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools
- Familiarity with .NET, JavaScript, or broader software engineering practices
Job Benefits
- Competitive salary reviewed annually
- Work for a passionate, mission-driven company solving society’s big problems
- Work flexible hours around life commitments with a focus on delivering company value rather than hours worked
- Ability to work remotely (excluding face-to-face Team Meetings and client meetings)
- Training and development opportunities
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Generous enhanced parental leave policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flu Vaccinations,
- Eye Test and contribution towards Glasses for VDU use
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Remote GP access
- Counselling/therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Medical second opinions
About
At Xantura, we’re on a mission to reduce societal inequality by helping local authorities use data more effectively. Our AI-driven platform empowers frontline workers with the insights they need to prevent complex issues like homelessness or children being taken into care — before they happen. We make this possible by connecting siloed datasets, applying advanced machine learning to enrich the data, and using predictive analytics to identify those most at risk. Our platform then distills this into clear, actionable insights that help frontline staff intervene early and make a real difference. It’s an exciting time to join Xantura. We’re scaling quickly, bringing on new clients, strengthening our platform, and expanding into new areas. While we’re a technology company at heart, our true focus is on improving lives — and we’re looking for people who share that vision.
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