Lead Data Engineer - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - G7

<p><strong>Location: </strong>Swansea</p> <p>This Lead Data Engineer role sits within DVLA's data platform team, working on modern, large-scale data systems that drive better decisions, insights and digital services.</p> <p><strong>Why this role stands out</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead engineering for <strong>high-impact data products across DVLA</strong> </li> <li>Work with modern technologies including <strong>Databricks, Spark, and lakehouse architectures</strong> </li> <li>Shape standards and best practice across a growing data function</li> <li>Collaborate with product teams, analysts and data scientists</li> <li>Play a key role in improving <strong>digital services at national scale</strong> </li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Leading the design and build of <strong>data pipelines and data products</strong> </li> <li>Developing <strong>robust data models and integrations</strong> across systems</li> <li>Ensuring data is processed efficiently for <strong>analytics and business intelligence</strong> </li> <li>Driving best practice and <strong>standards across data engineering teams</strong> </li> <li>Supporting performance optimisation and balancing <strong>cost, scalability and reliability</strong> </li> <li>Working across teams to enable reuse of data and improve delivery</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who this role could suit</strong></p> <p>This role could be a strong fit if experience includes:</p> <ul> <li>Leading data engineering or data platform delivery</li> <li>Strong SQL and Python development skills</li> <li>Experience with big data technologies (e.g. <strong>Spark, Databricks</strong>)</li> <li>Data modelling, warehousing and large-scale data processing</li> <li>Mentoring teams and setting engineering standards</li> </ul> <p><strong>Interested?</strong></p> <p>This partner post gives you the overview.</p> <p><strong>Click through to the full Civil Service Jobs advert</strong> to see full details and apply.</p><img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?sFiDUbGRNFdo0TUlNc4TLBj8tXtW6le8i" width="0" height="0" />