Top Data Engineer Jobs in Belfast

The Forward Deployed Data Solution Engineer works embedded within teams to ensure software quality, guide technical decisions, and design integration patterns, focusing on AI-enabled capabilities and data governance.

Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed backend services and data pipelines for large genomic and health datasets. Design storage, indexing, and async event workflows; optimize latency, throughput, and reliability. Partner with bioinformatics and product teams to validate scientific accuracy and guard AI-driven responses.

Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-based data platform and ETL pipelines on Azure. Develop data models, ensure data quality, optimize performance, implement governance and security, and collaborate with stakeholders and data scientists to enable data-driven solutions.

Own cloud architecture intelligence and cost optimization: analyze cloud spend, identify inefficiencies, build dashboards, enforce governance, partner with engineering/finance to drive cost-conscious design and operations.

Lead the development of backend services for government clients, focusing on high availability and scalability, while collaborating in agile teams and maintaining deployment pipelines.

Lead design, development, and operation of real-time and batch data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. Improve reliability, observability, and data architecture; own features end-to-end and mentor engineering teams while coordinating cross-team stakeholders.

Own and operate Databricks-based data platform production support, build and migrate ETL/ELT pipelines to Databricks across Azure/AWS, optimize compute and performance, enforce Delta Lake architecture and data security, implement observability and CI/CD, support multi-tenant onboarding and on-call incident response, and maintain runbooks and SLA metrics.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will manage complex data projects, lead small teams, and work with clients on data engineering solutions. Responsibilities include ETL development, data pipeline orchestration, and customer relationship management.