Senior Data Engineer

We are hiring a data engineering consultant to lead client delivery and build the next generation of engineers at Edge. This is a client-facing leadership role. You will spend most of your time working directly with both public & private organisations working in the healthcare sector, leading project teams drawn from every grade, and coaching junior engineers face to face. If the phrase “forward-deployed engineer” describes how you like to work, you will recognise this job.  

The engineering matters, and you will need to be a capable engineer. What makes someone excel here, though, is the ability to operate with clients and to develop people. 

What it's like to work at Edge 

The role is deliberately a mix of engineering and consulting. As a Senior Data Engineer you lead delivery with clients and develop the engineers around you, but you are still expected to be hands-on: building pipelines, making architecture calls, and noticing when a build is drifting from good practice. You'll work closely with economists, data scientists and consultants, so the engineering always connects to the question the client is trying to answer. 

The work is varied and often starts with a problem rather than a spec. We might be building data infrastructure for an NHS organisation, bringing together sensitive patient data safely so it can inform decisions, or creating a tool a client can run themselves. Because we work across the public and private health sector, no two projects look quite the same. 

We are also small enough for people to shape what Edge does. Senior Data Engineers coach junior colleagues, contribute to bids and proposals, and help set how we engineer as a team. We set aside two training days each quarter, and gaps in the stack are something we train rather than screen out. 

Edge is rated 4.9/5 on Glassdoor with 100% saying they would recommend the company. Recent reviews mention a supportive culture, interesting projects, personal development and lots of room to explore interests.