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Role Overview The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines and data platforms that power digital products, analytics use cases, reporting, and data-driven services. Acting as a key contributor within cross-functional delivery teams, the role collaborates closely with Product, Backend, Frontend, Architecture, Data Analytics, and platform teams to deliver trusted data assets across ingestion, transformation, storage, and access layers. At Supervising Associate level, the role leads complex data engineering delivery, sets technical direction and strengthens team capability across initiatives. Key Responsibilities Lead technical delivery across complex data workstreams: Make design decisions and resolve cross-platform dependencies, governance risks, and escalations. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering and data standards, and drive improvements in architecture, quality, lineage, security, observability, cost, and technical debt management. Data Pipeline & Platform Delivery Design, implement, and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines using Python and modern data engineering frameworks. Build reliable ingestion and transformation processes from internal and external data sources, including APIs, databases, files, and events. Develop reusable data processing components and frameworks following software engineering best practices. Data Quality, Reliability & Observability Implement data validation, quality checks, and monitoring to ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and trustworthiness of data. Write clean, testable code with unit and integration tests for data pipelines and processing components. Instrument pipelines with logging, metrics, alerts, and operational monitoring. Performance, Scalability & Architecture Optimize data processing performance, storage layouts, query efficiency, and platform resource usage. Design pipelines for scalability and resilience using retries, idempotency, checkpointing, and backpressure patterns. Apply partitioning, caching, and parallelization strategies where appropriate. Security, Governance & Continuous Improvement Implement secure data handling practices, including access controls, encryption, secrets management, and compliant data processing. Ensure alignment with enterprise, regulatory, privacy, data classification, retention, and lineage requirements. Support audits and data governance processes where required. What success in this role will look like Demonstrates successful leadership of complex data delivery, stronger engineering capability and consistent adoption of platform, quality and governance standards. Reliable delivery and operation of scalable data pipelines and data platform components. Trusted data assets with strong accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and observability controls. Clean, testable, documented, and maintainable Python and SQL-based data engineering solutions. Effective support for incidents, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and durable remediation. Provide mentorship and guidance to less experienced team members. Qualifications & Experience Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Professional experience building data pipelines and data platforms using Python. Strong experience with SQL and data modeling concepts, including dimensional, normalized, analytical, or lakehouse patterns. Hands-on experience with relational and analytical data stores, such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, data warehouses, or data lakes. Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews for data workloads. Expertise on cloud platforms, with Azure/Fabric, and relevant data services. Work effectively as part of a team, contributing to collective success while remaining open to feedback and coaching from more experienced colleagues. Strong understanding of data security, access control, observability, and production support practices. 7+ Years of Experience are required.

PMO - Exit Support Specialist Must have an Active DV Clearance You will work closely with Programme Managers, PMO teams, commercial teams, and operational stakeholders to deliver effective transition, knowledge transfer, and contract closure activities. The position is ideal for an experienced PMO professional with strong coordination, governance, and stakeholder management skills who thrives in fast-paced programme environments. PMO - Exit Support Specialist Responsibilities Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of programme and contract exit activities. Maintain and track exit plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, actions, and decisions. Coordinate knowledge transfer, documentation handover, asset tracking, and service transition activities. Monitor progress against exit schedules and provide reporting to programme leadership. Support governance forums and ensure compliance with contractual and organisational requirements. Coordinate onboarding and offboarding activities associated with programme transition. Track financial, commercial, and contractual obligations throughout programme exit. Support audit, assurance, and evidence gathering activities. Contribute to continual improvement of PMO governance and transition processes. PMO - Exit Support Specialist Skills and Experience Proven experience within a PMO, Programme Support, or Project Coordination role. Strong planning, scheduling, and progress tracking capability. Experience with PMO governance, reporting, and programme controls. Strong RAID, dependency, and action management experience. Experience coordinating knowledge transfer and documentation activities. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving abilities. Ability to manage multiple priorities within fast-paced delivery environments. Advanced Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and PMO toolset experience. Proactive, adaptable, resilient, and customer focused with excellent attention to detail. To apply, please send your CV by pressing the apply button. Due to high volume of applications, only shortlisted CVs will be contacted. Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.