Data & Analytics Engineer

Salary: £31,000 - 69,000 per year

Requirements:

• Great attention to detail and excellent personal standards relating to accuracy and consistency.
• Customer focused and able to build client relationships.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs into value-adding data models and pipelines.
• A documentation mindset, including runbooks, catalog cards, and readmes.
• Experience of a multinational business and system landscape.
• Flexible and able to act as a positive agent for change.
• Enjoys working as part of a team.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement batch and streaming pipelines across bronze, silver, and gold layers using PySpark, Spark SQL, DLT, and Auto Loader.
• Implement CDC patterns, incremental loads, and performance tuning through partitioning, Z Order, OPTIMIZE, and VACUUM.
• Build robust tests, data expectations, and observability including alerts, metrics, and runbooks.
• Orchestrate workflows using Databricks Jobs.
• Collaborate on CI/CD with the platform team using Repos, Git, deployment pipelines, and Terraform for jobs and infrastructure as code.
• Model curated gold datasets, dimensional models, and semantic layers for BI.
• Optimise SQL Warehouses for performance, concurrency, and cost, while maintaining versioned metric definitions.
• Document tables with catalog cards covering owner, SLA, lineage, and data contracts, and support discoverability.
• Implement access controls with Unity Catalog.
• Adhere to naming conventions and tagging standards for owner, environment, cost centre, and classification.
• Participate in access reviews, audit remediation, and privacy and compliance processes.
• Work closely with key business stakeholders and SI partners to gather requirements, optimise business processes, and deliver scalable solutions that drive business value.

Technologies:

• CI/CD
• Databricks
• Git
• Support
• PySpark
• SQL
• Spark
• Terraform
• Unity
• GameDev
• Security
• Tableau

More:

We are JCB, hiring a full-time permanent Data & Analytics Engineer during an exciting transformation of our global data capabilities. You will join a team focused on designing, building, and optimising reliable data pipelines and well-governed analytical datasets on the Databricks Lakehouse, enabling fast and secure analytics through SQL warehouses and Unity Catalogues. We offer a competitive salary, 33 days holiday, company pension, onsite gym, in-house doctor and dentist, an ULEV car scheme, and access to our JCB Rewards Hub with high street discounts, plus our Cycle to Work Scheme. We are committed to diversity, fairness, and an inclusive recruitment process.

last updated 37 week of 2026