Job Description:
Salary Range: £53,000 - £71,000
Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.
Your Impact
At Leonardo UK, you’ll help shape and strengthen the organisation’s data capabilities by building scalable, reliable, and future-ready data solutions that enable informed decision-making across the business. As a Data Engineer, you’ll work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment where innovation, automation, and data integrity are central to success.
In this role, you will:
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Design, develop, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines to support the ingestion, transformation, validation, and delivery of data across multiple systems and platforms.
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Manage and optimise enterprise data environments, including cloud-based data warehouses and data lakes such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Azure Synapse, ensuring high levels of scalability, reliability, and performance.
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Collaborate closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Engineering teams to ensure data is accurate, accessible, and aligned to business objectives.
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Partner with stakeholders across the organisation to gather reporting and analytics requirements, translating business needs into effective and sustainable data solutions.
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Automate data integration, orchestration, and monitoring workflows using modern tools and frameworks including Python, Dagster, and Azure Data Factory.
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Support the development and optimisation of dashboards and reporting solutions across platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, and Looker, helping to ensure semantic consistency and trusted reporting outputs.
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Maintain high-quality documentation and governance standards to ensure traceability, reproducibility, and compliance across data assets, pipelines, and processes.
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Continuously identify opportunities to improve data architecture, operational efficiency, and engineering best practices across the wider data ecosystem.
This is an opportunity to work with modern technologies on meaningful, high-impact projects, helping drive the evolution of data engineering within one of the UK’s leading advanced technology organisations.
What you'll bring
Technical expertise: Strong knowledge of SQL, ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and modern data platforms. Experience with Python, Dagster, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL is essential; familiarity with big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark) is advantageous.
Analytical thinking: Ability to interpret complex datasets and support the development of meaningful, insight-driven BI solutions.
Problem solving: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex data integration and data quality challenges.
Communication: Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business language.
Attention to detail: High level of accuracy in validating data and ensuring integrity across systems.
Documentation & governance: Commitment to maintaining clear, structured documentation to support traceability and best practice.
Experience in data engineering, data management, or a related field, with hands-on expertise in data integration and pipeline development.
Certifications (desirable): Industry-recognised certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Data Engineer Associate or equivalent.
This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.
Security Clearance
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting
Why join us
At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we’re here to help you thrive.
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Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
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Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
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Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
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Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
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Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
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Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
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Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
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Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.
For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.
Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.
At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.
Be part of something bigger - apply now!
Primary Location:
GB - Edinburgh
Additional Locations:
GB - Basildon, GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane, GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300, GB - Newcastle, GB - Southampton, GB - Yeovil - Lysander Rd
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hybrid Working:
Hybrid
