As Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the work of The Wildlife Trusts by maintaining and enhancing its data pipelines and infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of the federation wide data service system, a data lakehouse, providing key insights and solutions to support decision-making across the organisation and federation, responding to the needs of Wildlife Trusts and the delivery of our 2030 Strategy.
Working collaboratively with various teams, you will develop data management solutions, new use cases, forecast data volumes, and ensure cost-effective service maintenance. You will be integral in enabling the leverage of data for operational and strategic success and in supporting an excellent community of practice within the federation of Wildlife Trusts.
As Data Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and optimising data pipelines, cloud services, and providing data-driven solutions to support business needs. To excel in this role, you should be highly motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate about people focused data engineering and analysis. You will have experience in a data engineering role, ideally with practical experience or the ability to upskill in cloud services like Azure, Databricks and ESRI, as well as excellent proven proficiency, SQL and Python. Ideally you would have a familiarity with developing pipelines which support Analysts who use RStudio Power BI and/or GIS. You will have experience or the ability to up-skill in administering data services linked to the Data Lakehouse wholistically, such as GitHub, Power BI.
You will work closely with and on behalf of teams across the Wildlife Trusts to ensure its data systems are secure, optimised, scalable, and cost-efficient. You should have a solid understanding of data security to ensure compliance with best practices. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams are essential.
If you are a problem solver with a can-do attitude and a passion for data, please apply for this exciting opportunity to become a Wildlife Trusts’ Data Solutions Engineer.
Further details and how to apply can be found here. The deadline for applications is 30 November 2025.