
Sanderson Government and Defence
AWS Data Engineer - Secure Environment
Job Description
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience building data pipelines
- Strong understanding of data modelling and data structures
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, Athena, and Glue
- Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
- Proficiency in Python or an equivalent scripting language
- Experience with test-driven development
- Familiarity with Agile delivery
- Must hold or be eligible for enhanced DV Security Clearance
- Must hold sole British nationality
- Build, test, and maintain robust data pipelines
- Design logical and physical data models
- Scale the data platform to meet evolving use cases
- Analyse data flows and improve processing performance
- Ensure data architecture aligns with agreed standards
- Troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvement
- AI
- AWS
- Lambda
- Cloud
- EC2
- Support
- NoSQL
- Python
- Security
More:
We are a fast-growing consultancy at the forefront of secure data and cloud infrastructure, delivering AI-ready platforms for some of the UKs most high-impact projects. We are supporting a government client with a secure, scalable data platform that underpins real-time and batch processing for critical analytics and decision-making. We value respect, equality, and inclusion, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people and a strong spirit of partnership, and we will support any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.
last updated 33 week of 2026
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Sanderson Government and Defence
Cheltenham
IT
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£60,000
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This salary is 67% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
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