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Senior Data Engineer

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
38,040 - 44,903 per year
Remote
Full-time
28th June 2026
Listed today

Closing Date:

28 June 2026

Closing Date:

28 June 2026

  • Annually:£38,040 - £44,903 per annum plus £500 home-working allowance
  • Region:Nationwide or Remote
  • Location:Nationwide
  • Department:Digital Operations & Services
  • Vacancy Type:Permanent
  • Working hours per week:35
  • Closing Date:28 June 2026

Are you looking for a role within an organisation where the work you do makes a real difference to the lives of children? If the answer it's yes, becoming a Senior Data Engineer at the NSPCC could be exactly what you're looking for. 

Do you want to empower change? Join our Technology and Data department 

At the NSPCC, we believe every childhood is worth fighting for. With over 100 years of experience, and the collective strength of our staff, volunteers, supporters, and partners, we're working to end child abuse and neglect for good.

Our Technology and Data department make sures that our systems, technology platforms and products are secure, reliable and ready to be used efficiently by our people and for the benefit of children.

We meet this challenge with best practice delivery and development standards, a focus on user experience, enterprise solutions, data and analytics, and honesty and commitment to our values and vision for children and young people.

From safeguarding sensitive information to enabling frontline services to run smoothly, our team plays a crucial role in helping us respond swiftly and effectively, whenever and wherever we're needed.

If you're passionate about using technology to drive meaningful impact and want to be part of a team that helps protect children through innovation and integrity, join us as a Senior Data Engineer.

What is the purpose of the Senior Data Engineer? 

This role plays a key role in ensuring that every system NSPCC's use is safe, reliable and ready to support the work we do for children and young people. You'll contribute by:

  • Building a better understanding of the people that use our services and how we can help them.
  • Improving how we engage and grow our supporter base.
  • Seeking ways to refine our existing processes for our staff and volunteers.
  • Deploying data and technology to boost our frontline services.

What will I be doing as a Senior Data Engineer? 

  • Design, build, iterate, and maintain robust data pipelines from a myriad of internal and external sources to our data platforms using clean development practices.
  • Plan, create, and maintain the infrastructure that ensures the data is appropriately accessible but secure.
  • Assist with the transition to Databricks as our central data platform that underpins insight, analysis, reporting, and data science.

What skills do I need to be a Senior Data Engineer? 

  • You create ETL/ELT pipelines, data automation and integration.
  • You write performant-yet-legible Python and SQL.
  • You design and deploy cloud infrastructure, preferably in Azure and with infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • You have expertise with a modern data platform, preferably Databricks.
  • You create data schemas, models and structures.
  • You apply software development best practices: version control, CI/CD, unit tests, KISS, SOLID, documentation, etc.
  • You have knowledge of the software available in the modern data engineering landscape and when to best apply them.
  • You communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • You mentor and coach peers and junior colleagues.

Why join the NSPCC?

Any one of our people will tell you that a huge reward in itself is making a difference to children's lives. But we know it's a competitive world, and it's important to feel valued in your role and receive more practical, tangible benefits. We offer salaries that are at least comparable with the top charities in the UK, as well as these benefits.

  • Generous annual leave- 29 days per annum plus bank holidays for full-time employees (pro-rata for part-time). 32 days per annum after five years' continuous service.
  • Employee discounts- Our discounts portal gives you online access to over 3,000 discounts and offers.
  • The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)- an independent, free, personal support service. It can provide information, support and advice to support your health and wellbeing.
  • Pension- building up a good pension is something we want to help you achieve with our flexible, tax-efficient pension schemes.
  • Life assurance scheme- All employees will be given life assurance of one times their salary, unless they join the NSPCC Group Personal Pension Scheme, where members are given life assurance of five times their salary.

Join us and make a difference. You'll grow, be challenged, and help change millions of young lives for the better.

Ready to apply?

If this is the role for you, please click the button ‘apply' to start your journey. You can find more information on all recruitment stages on the Career page.

Still have questions about the role?

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Chris Marriott, christopher.marriott@nspcc.org.uk.

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If you are interested in applying for this role, we encourage you to apply early. To help us manage the process we may close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a strong response to the role.

In keeping with our values and our policies, if any individuals who are regrettably at risk of redundancy apply for a role and meet the minimum essential criteria they will be given priority consideration. We hope that you understand our position on this and that this will not discourage from applying. We cannot predict who, internally, will apply for a role, or whether they will meet the minimum essential criteria. Where no at-risk candidates meet the minimum essential criteria, all applications will be considered as normal.

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As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

At the NSPCC we are on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed organisation for the children, young people and families that we work with, as well as our staff and volunteers. To be trauma-informed is one of the guiding principles that shape and guide our 2021-2031 Strategy. This means understanding the nature of adversity, trauma, and resilience so that we can work towards reducing and preventing further harm and promoting recovery and healing. Coming to work at the NSPCC will provide the opportunity for you to join us in our commitment to becoming a trauma-informed organisation.

NSPCC is that the NSPCC highly embraces,

encourages and promotes diversity and

inclusiveness of staff.

Siobhan Walters / Children's Services