Senior Data Engineer

Burgess Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom

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Work setting: Hybrid — work setting source
Role: Senior Data Engineer Location: Burgess Hill, Hybrid (3 days a week) Employment: Fulltime
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What you’ll work on

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Provision and deploy databases using automation and infrastructure as code
Work with application teams and Data Architects on new initiatives
Lead database migrations and modernisation projects
Tune database performance and troubleshoot issues

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automate database provisioning and deployments

Experience working closely with Application Teams and Data Architects on new initiatives

database migrations, modernisation, and production deployments

performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

Senior hands-on experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL
Database engineering, performance tuning and high availability experience
Automation skills with Ansible, Terraform, Python or Shell, and Git/CI/CD
Practical experience with Cassandra, MongoDB and/or Couchbase

Preferred experience

Experience in financial services, banking or regulated environments

Qualification wording

strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL

Strong experience in database engineering, performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting

Ansible, Terraform, Python/Shell, Infrastructure as Code, Git and CI/CD

practical experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, and/or Couchbase

Preferably experienced in financial services/banking or regulated environments

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Actively hiringFirst seen by us 8 days ago, still listed, and not a repost of an earlier posting.

Status in our records: Live
First seen by us: Oct 27, 20268 days ago
Recorded sightings: 13
Last seen by us: Nov 4, 2026

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Strong experience in database engineering, performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting across enterprise environments. Strong automation/DevOps mindset, using Ansible, Terraform, Python/Shell, Infrastructure as Code, Git and CI/CD to automate database provisioning and deployments. Experience working closely with Application Teams and Data Architects on new initiatives, database migrations, modernisation, and production deployments, rather than a traditional DBA-only role.

Required skill set: Senior hands-on Data/Database Engineer with strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL, plus practical experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, and/or Couchbase. Strong experience in database engineering, performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting across enterprise environments.

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Has Cognizant posted this job before?

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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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Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Burgess Hill, Hybrid (3 days a week)

Employment: Fulltime

Required skill set:

Senior hands-on Data/Database Engineer with strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL, plus practical experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, and/or Couchbase.

Strong experience in database engineering, performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting across enterprise environments.

Strong automation/DevOps mindset, using Ansible, Terraform, Python/Shell, Infrastructure as Code, Git and CI/CD to automate database provisioning and deployments.

Experience working closely with Application Teams and Data Architects on new initiatives, database migrations, modernisation, and production deployments, rather than a traditional DBA-only role.

Preferably experienced in financial services/banking or regulated environments.

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