Advert Closes: Monday 16th March

Are you a data‑driven problem solver who loves turning complex information into meaningful insight?

Join us as a Data Engineer at The Crown Estate.

We're looking for someone who’s passionate about building modern data platforms, enjoys solving technical challenges, and thrives in a collaborative environment. In this role, you’ll help develop and enhance our Azure data ecosystem, delivering high‑quality, scalable and secure data solutions that support The Crown Estate’s strategic goals.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, developing, testing and maintaining The Crown Estate’s data platform to support reporting, analytics and data science.

• Applying industry best practices across development, testing/automation, CI/CD, and documentation.

• Building and optimising end‑to‑end data pipelines to ensure reliability, quality and availability of data.

• Analysing data structures, identifying opportunities for performance improvements and supporting continuous optimisation.

• Working closely with colleagues and stakeholders to understand needs and make data easily accessible and trustworthy.

• Upholding robust information security measures across all work.

• Staying current with emerging cloud technologies and industry trends.

What you’ll bring

• Experience developing data ingestion, processing and analytical pipelines across big data, relational and warehouse environments.

• Hands‑on experience with Azure technologies such as Data Factory, Functions/Durable Functions, Synapse, Azure SQL DB and Databricks.

• Strong skills in PySpark, Python and SQL for building automated, high‑performing and testable pipelines.

• Knowledge of Unity Catalog for secure, well‑governed data asset management.

• Familiarity with deploying cloud infrastructure as code (Bicep or Terraform).

• Experience working with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

• A proactive approach to identifying risks and resolving issues early.

• Experience with geospatial data or machine learning/AI (desirable).

What helps you thrive in this role

• A willingness to share knowledge and support technical development across the team.

• A proactive mindset for preventing recurring issues and improving processes.

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for continuous improvement and evolving best practices.

• Strong communication skills, especially when simplifying complex technical topics.

• The ability to lead change, support others in learning new concepts and promote new ways of working.

• A collaborative approach, influencing and aligning with stakeholders across the organisation.

• A commitment to customer excellence and challenging established ways of thinking to improve outcomes.

Interested? Apply now to join The Crown Estate and help shape the future of our data capability.

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly.