Data Engineer

We are looking to recruit a Data Engineer to play a vital role in supporting the digital transformation journeys of our clients. In this role, you will work directly on high-impact projects that shape modern data infrastructure, solve complex technical challenges, and drive meaningful outcomes across key sectors. You will join an innovative and collaborative data engineering team with great opportunities to work with modern cloud technologies, expand your skillset, and champion best practices.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, building, and developing robust, scalable data pipelines to ensure reliable data flow and performance.

• Helping break down requirements into development tasks, and contributing to estimates and data design discussions.

• Upholding our quality practices, including source control, reproducibility and testing.

• Working with client stakeholders on the technical tasks: clarifying data requirements and talking through options.

• Supporting junior engineers with their delivery work, from estimating tasks to following quality standards.

• Helping junior engineers get to know the platforms and tools we use, such as cloud platforms and orchestration frameworks.

What you’ll bring to Answer

• Commercial experience building data pipelines and taking ownership of your own deliverables within a team.

• Good SQL and Python, plus hands-on experience with orchestration and at least one cloud data platform.

• An understanding of the data lifecycle: ETL/ELT, data modelling and data governance.

• Experience working with version control, testing and documentation standards.

• An interest in consultancy work and in solving our clients' problems.

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them:

• Experience building semantic models and reports using tools such as PowerBI.

• Healthcare data experience, such as NHS programmes or standards like FHIR, HL7 and SNOMED CT.

• Using AI-assisted tools to build, test or document pipelines, and checking their output carefully.

• Data governance/contracts or other ways of catching data quality issues early.

The perks of being @ Answer

We’re an Employee-Owned Company. After 12 months – through the Employee Ownership Trust you will be part of the ownership of Answer; a major factor in driving engagement, retention and growth for our people

• Competitive salary

• Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward)

• Twice a year income-tax free bonus based on company performance - it’s a reward for being a part of our EOT journey

• Continuous training and development - if you want to learn, we’ll provide the support you need

• Flexible Pension - we match your own contributions up to 5%

• A flexible Healthcare cash plan so you can fund the care you value most

• A packed social calendar including; end of year party (partners invited) and Summer away days, monthly and quarterly company team socials.

• Parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here

• The chance to give back – get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events

Diversity and Inclusion

At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work.

We will do everything we can to support your application. If you require any adjustments to be made to your application (whether that’s support with our interview questions, adjusting how we interview, or financial support with our hiring process) then please speak to our Recruitment Team.

A bit more about us.

Answer Digital is a highly successful digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. We’re a company on a fast growth trajectory with a reputation of delivering large-scale, operational critical solutions.

People are at the heart of everything we do - so much so we’re owned by our people. It sets us apart from most digital businesses you’ll meet and defines our culture and values. Our people are invested in everything we do, because we are invested in them.

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Our Interview Process

We pride ourselves on having a fair but flexible recruitment process, we want to create a platform where you can show us your best. For us, keeping it simple means you can focus on understanding if our people, values and the work we do are right for you. Our typical process can be broken down into 3 stages;

• Recruiter call: This normally lasts 15-30 minutes. We will talk to you about Answer Digital, the type of work we do, and an overview of the role. We’ll ask you some questions about your current situation and why you’re interested in working here. Here, we’d advise asking any “people” questions, anything about our culture, career progression or approach to flexible working.

• Skills based interview: This interview will be with 2 people, normally from the team you’re applying to work with. We can do this stage remote or in person, whichever you’d prefer. This interview will involve questions around your experience, the skills you’ve gained and the work you’ve done. We’ll also ask questions about the role and challenges you might face and how you’d face them. Here, we’d recommend asking questions about the role, the day to day responsibilities and what life in the team is like.

• Cultural/Value interview: This interview will be with 2 of our Leadership team, either our Directors or Capability Leads. It will focus on our culture and values, talking about our values and what they mean to us as well as understanding what values are important to you and how you like to work. This interview is about making sure Answer is right for you, as much as the other way around. Here, we advise you to ask as many questions around our business model, our ambitious growth plans and anything to do with Answer as a business.