Senior Data Engineer in Southampton

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Southampton

Who are we recruiting for?

Our client is a technology-driven maritime organisation transforming operations at sea through robotics, autonomy, and data. They operate a global fleet generating large volumes of mission-critical data and are building a modern data platform to enable analytics, operational decision-making, and AI in safety-critical environments.

What will you be doing?

• Building and evolving the first version of a cloud-based data platform (AWS or Azure)

• Designing pragmatic data architectures with clear technical trade-offs

• Developing robust pipelines for telemetry, sensor, and operational data

• Implementing data quality controls, monitoring, and alerting

• Managing schemas, metadata, lineage, and dataset ownership

• Embedding security best practices: encryption, access control, auditability

• Delivering reusable datasets and data products (not one-off extracts)

• Documenting standards to enable future scale and growth

Are you the ideal candidate?

• Proven experience delivering production-grade data platforms end-to-end

• Strong data architecture and systems design capability

• Hands-on Python and strong SQL skills

• Cloud experience in AWS or Azure (multi-cloud a bonus)

• Experience with time-series, telemetry, or high-volume operational data

• Solid data modelling skills for analytics and ML use cases

• Strong focus on data quality, testing, and reliability

• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, version control, and observability

• Security-aware mindset and disciplined delivery approach

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineers and operators

What’s in it for you?

• Work on cutting-edge technology transforming a traditional industry

• Play a key role in building a greenfield data platform

• Opportunities to grow beyond your role across multiple disciplines

• Collaborative, values-driven culture with real-world impact

• Be part of a team tackling complex operational and sustainability challen