Business Intelligence / Data Engineer
Intec Select Ltd
Swindon or London - Hybrid (Once per month onsite)
£530 PD – Inside IR 35 – 3 months (likely extension) – Start ASAP.
Our trusted client, that operates within the public sector and helps millions of people in the UK with funding investment is seeking an experienced Business Intelligence Engineer / AWS Data Engineer to support the development of a modern data platform and contribute to emerging AI-driven initiatives (ML).
This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation investing heavily in its data platform and future AI capabilities, with the successful candidate playing a key role in shaping both current Business Intelligence delivery and next-generation data solutions.
This role will suit someone with a strong foundation in AWS data engineering and Business Intelligence, alongside practical exposure to AI/ML concepts or tools.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Data Engineering: Design, build and optimise data pipelines and data platform components within AWS.
- Business Intelligence: Support and enhance Business Intelligence reporting and analytics capabilities.
- Data Architecture: Contribute to the development of a data lake and modern data architecture.
- Platform Development: Work across both BAU support and new capability development, with approximately 50% of the role focused on Business Intelligence and Data Engineering delivery and 50% focused on data platform and AI initiatives.
- AI Initiatives: Collaborate with wider teams on AI-related initiatives and roadmap delivery.
- Data Governance: Apply best practices around data quality, governance and performance optimisation.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with technical and business teams to deliver high-quality data solutions and support organisational objectives.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve processes, automation, tooling, and platform performance.
Skills and Experience:
- 4–8+ years' experience in Data Engineering, Business Intelligence or related roles
Strong hands-on experience with:
- AWS Data-based solutions and engineering stack (e.g. Glue, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Athena)
- SQL (advanced level)
- Python (for data processing and pipeline development)
- Infrastructure and tooling exposure (e.g. Terraform, APIs, CI/CD)
AI / ML Exposure (Key Requirement):
Practical exposure to AI/ML, such as:
- Working with cloud-based AI services (e.g. AWS Bedrock or similar)
- Supporting AI-enabled data products or workflows
- Understanding of generative AI and prompt engineering concepts
- Exposure to ML pipelines or collaboration with Data Science teams
Key Attributes
- Strong problem-solving skills with a hands-on engineering mindset
- Comfortable working within a developing and evolving environment
- Ability to bridge the gap between data engineering and emerging AI use cases
- Proactive, collaborative and delivery-focused approach
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience contributing to data lake builds or modern data platforms
- Experience working in complex or regulated environments is beneficial
- Exposure to Data Ops and CI/CD practices
- Public sector experience
Please note: BPSS clearance is essential
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