Lead Data Engineer - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Full-time (Permanent)
£57,515
Published on
7 May 2026
Deadline
25 May 2026
Location: Swansea
This Lead Data Engineer role sits within DVLA’s data platform team, working on modern, large-scale data systems that drive better decisions, insights and digital services.
Why this role stands out
- Lead engineering for high-impact data products across DVLA
- Work with modern technologies including Databricks, Spark, and lakehouse architectures
- Shape standards and best practice across a growing data function
- Collaborate with product teams, analysts and data scientists
- Play a key role in improving digital services at national scale
What you’ll be doing
- Leading the design and build of data pipelines and data products
- Developing robust data models and integrations across systems
- Ensuring data is processed efficiently for analytics and business intelligence
- Driving best practice and standards across data engineering teams
- Supporting performance optimisation and balancing cost, scalability and reliability
- Working across teams to enable reuse of data and improve delivery
Who this role could suit
This role could be a strong fit if experience includes:
- Leading data engineering or data platform delivery
- Strong SQL and Python development skills
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Databricks)
- Data modelling, warehousing and large-scale data processing
- Mentoring teams and setting engineering standards
Interested?
This partner post gives you the overview.
Click through to the full Civil Service Jobs advert to see full details and apply.
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