Senior Data Engineer

Burford, Oxfordshire

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Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week Salary: £36,053 - £38,577 Location: Burford OX18 4PF
Compensation £36,053 - £38,577 / year Employment type
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The role is central to upholding rigorous data governance and continuous technical improvement across the charity. You will establish automated monitoring to identify and resolve data quality anomalies, standardise operating documentation, and drive efficiencies within key direct marketing and operational campaigns. Furthermore, as the senior technical lead within the function, you will act as a point of escalation for complex data integration challenges and provide coaching and mentorship to the Data Engineer, fostering high technical standards and consistent service delivery. This is a permanent role based at our Burford, Oxfordshire office. This is a hybrid role and you must be able to work from Burford twice a week. About you
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The role is central to upholding rigorous data governance and continuous technical improvement across the charity. You will establish automated monitoring to identify and resolve data quality anomalies, standardise operating documentation, and drive efficiencies within key direct marketing and operational campaigns. Furthermore, as the senior technical lead within the function, you will act as a point of escalation for complex data integration challenges and provide coaching and mentorship to the Data Engineer, fostering high technical standards and consistent service delivery. This is a permanent role based at our Burford, Oxfordshire office. This is a hybrid role and you must be able to work from Burford twice a week. About you
Employment type Permanent
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What you’ll work on

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Build and maintain automated ETL pipelines and API connections
Support central data repositories for analysis and reporting in Power BI
Set up automated monitoring to catch and resolve data quality issues
Act as escalation point for complex data integration problems
Coach and mentor the Data Engineer

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You will develop and refine ETL pipelines and robust API connections

support the maintenance and evolution of our central data repositories

You will establish automated monitoring to identify and resolve data quality anomalies

act as a point of escalation for complex data integration challenges

provide coaching and mentorship to the Data Engineer

What you’ll bring

All qualifications

Core experience

Experience working in data engineering
Experience working with a variety of database solutions
Good understanding of ingestion patterns such as ETL and ELT
Strong data quality control and data compliance practice
Ability to explain technical data to non-technical audiences

Qualification wording

Experience working in data engineering

Experience of working with a variety of database solutions

Good understanding of typical ingestion patterns (eg ETL, ELT)

You will be aware of data management best practice, including ensuring data compliance

Experience of collaborating with technical and non-technical audiences

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- Experience working for a charity or not for profit organisation - Knowledge of Faststats, Peoplestage, SQL, Excel, VBA, Blender - Experience or knowledge of data warehousing and cloud-based solutions to combine multiple data/application sources

More about the role Working closely with the Data Manager and colleagues across Information Services, you will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, automated data flows that reduce organisational data silos. You will develop and refine ETL pipelines and robust API connections to integrate, cleanse, and ingest data from internal platforms, external partners, and CRM systems with minimal manual dependency. Additionally, you will support the maintenance and evolution of our central data repositories, ensuring that data is securely structured, fully compliant with regulatory standards, and readily accessible for analysis and reporting within tools such as Power BI. The role is central to upholding rigorous data governance and continuous technical improvement across the charity. You will establish automated monitoring to identify and resolve data quality anomalies, standardise operating documentation, and drive efficiencies within key direct marketing and operational campaigns. Furthermore, as the senior technical lead within the function, you will act as a point of escalation for complex data integration challenges and provide coaching and mentorship to the Data Engineer, fostering high technical standards and consistent service delivery.

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About the role

We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.

Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.

An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.

US government figures for database architects

Median yearly pay, May 2025: $139,500
Expected change, 2025 to 2035: 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.

Job description

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Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

Salary: £36,053 - £38,577

Location: Burford OX18 4PF

Closing date: Tuesday 24th November 2026

Interview date: W/C 30th November 2026

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our Information Services team in Burford, Oxfordshire to lead the optimisation of our data architecture and pipelines. In this role, you will play a critical part in connecting and transforming operational and supporter data into reliable, governed assets that inform strategic decision-making and enhance outcomes for the pets, guardians, and communities we support across the charity.

More about the role

Working closely with the Data Manager and colleagues across Information Services, you will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, automated data flows that reduce organisational data silos. You will develop and refine ETL pipelines and robust API connections to integrate, cleanse, and ingest data from internal platforms, external partners, and CRM systems with minimal manual dependency. Additionally, you will support the maintenance and evolution of our central data repositories, ensuring that data is securely structured, fully compliant with regulatory standards, and readily accessible for analysis and reporting within tools such as Power BI.

The role is central to upholding rigorous data governance and continuous technical improvement across the charity. You will establish automated monitoring to identify and resolve data quality anomalies, standardise operating documentation, and drive efficiencies within key direct marketing and operational campaigns. Furthermore, as the senior technical lead within the function, you will act as a point of escalation for complex data integration challenges and provide coaching and mentorship to the Data Engineer, fostering high technical standards and consistent service delivery.

This is a permanent role based at our Burford, Oxfordshire office. This is a hybrid role and you must be able to work from Burford twice a week.

About you

The ideal candidate will offer substantial technical proficiency in modern data engineering principles, ingestion architectures, and database environments. You will demonstrate an analytical approach to complex technical problem-solving, with proven ability in developing scalable automated processes and managing extensive data lifecycles. Alongside your technical depth, you will possess strong stakeholder-engagement capabilities, enabling you to articulate intricate data concepts effectively to non-technical operational and commercial audiences.

You should be highly organised and resilient, skilled at balancing concurrent project priorities, and committed to upholding strict compliance, information security, and data protection standards. A collaborative professional who values continuous learning, you will actively stay abreast of emerging technologies and share technical insights to enhance team capability. Ultimately, you will align with Blue Cross core values, bringing a structured, dependable, and values-led approach to supporting our organisational mission.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Experience working in data engineering
Highly accomplished in data synthesis
Experience of working with a variety of database solutions
Good understanding of typical ingestion patterns (eg ETL, ELT)
Experience of collaborating with technical and non-technical audiences, with the ability to adapt communication approach to meet the needs of different audiences
An understanding of the issues of data ingestion and effective quality control to ensure that data is always a high standard to enable us to achieve charity objectives
You will be aware of data management best practice, including ensuring data compliance, and will have experience in processes and routines that mean the highest data quality is achieved.
High aptitude for quickly learning new tools
Ability to demonstrate, understanding and apply our Blue Cross values

Desirable Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Experience working for a charity or not for profit organisation
Knowledge of Faststats, Peoplestage, SQL, Excel, VBA, Blender
Experience or knowledge of data warehousing and cloud-based solutions to combine multiple data/application sources
Knowledge of the GDPR
Knowledge of CRM applications like D365, Microsoft data technologies

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Blue Cross benefits

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.

In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.

Our generous benefits package includes:

Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
Health cash plan
Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
Life assurance
20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
Enhanced family friendly policies
Recognition scheme
Annual volunteer days
Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.

Compensation

£36,053 - £38,577 / year

Employment type

Permanent

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