Senior Data Engineer

£42,914 - £46,182

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Salary**: £42,914 - £46,182 (which may include an allowance of up to £9,424)

You'll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work-life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Base salary for this role is from £42,914 - £46,182

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade's pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
• Candidates may also be eligible for a non‑pensionable Government Digital & Data Allowance of up to £9,424 per year This is a temporary allowance, reviewed annually and may be retained, amended, or withdrawn.

The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.

Alongside your salary of £42,914, Ministry of Justice contributes £12,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

We're recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative property team.

This role aligns against Senior Data Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector. Data engineers at MoJ play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision-making. We're looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the Ministry of Justice.

You will work with other Data Engineers, and alongside Analytics Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, exploring cutting edge GenAI/AI tooling, developing analytical pipelines and self-service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform.

The Property domain works with a wide range of structured and unstructured data, including documents and text-based records. As part of ongoing development of the Data and Analytics Engineering capability, we are exploring how emerging technologies, including GenAI, can support the processing and structuring of this data at scale. This includes example use cases such as document enrichment and classification to improve data accessibility for stakeholders.

• Designing and building robust, scalable, automated and generic data engineer tooling to improve ramp-up time for new pipelines, primarily using Python.
• Designing, writing and maintaining ETL (extract, transform, load) scripts and code to ensure the ETL process performs optimally.
• Designing and building data pipelines that integrate ML and GenAI capabilities (e.g. batch inference, text processing, or enrichment workflows), and evaluating their performance, cost and reliability in production settings.
• Using a range of AWS services to deploy your solutions in a reproducible, sustainable manner, with the core ones being: S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda and LakeFormation.
• Using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to deploy pipelines as AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Working with a range of structured and unstructured data, including text-based data, to support analytical and data science use cases.
• Using GitHub Actions to automate repository events.
• Both ensuring and contributing to standards around engineering.
• Developing and optimising code, tools and services that enable people to use data effectively, such as cataloguing and metadata.

You may also be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

• Designing and maintaining technical documentation.
• Creating and promoting best practices within the team and wider.
• Responding to incident reports, ensuring relevant prioritisation and detail to allow for effective investigation.
• Developing novel solutions to fit the needs of a range of stakeholders.
• Initiating team building and development initiatives.
• Line managing a more junior colleague.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Apply before 11:55 pm on Saturday 21st November 2026

489689

Senior Executive Officer

Permanent

Architecture and Data

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This position is based at 5 WELLINGTON PLACE, LEEDS, LS1 4AP

Please refer to Job Description

Location: Leeds

Closing Date: 21st November 2026

Interviews: Interviews will take place in person in Leeds on 1st and 2nd December 2026

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 23703

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Please refer to Job Description

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
• Telephone : 0345 241 5359

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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