Lead Data (Product) Engineer £59,816 - £79, 516

Lead Data (Product) Engineer £59,816 - £79, 516

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £59,816 to £59,816 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Swansea

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 3 Nov 2026

Closing date: 15 Nov 2026

Are you an experienced Data Engineer with strong SQL skills, python knowledge, and interest in data processing in cloud platform and delivering reliable data products?

Are you motivated by delivering data products that support services with real national impact?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here


• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday


• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - Civil Service Careers.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data (Product) Engineer to join our data platform team to help us deliver high-impact data products enabling better decisions, insights and services across the DVLA. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading data engineering projects, ensuring the efficient processing and management of data across the organisation.

The role requires strong understanding of data modelling and processing but focuses on the practical ability to implement solutions using a range of technologies and languages (e.g. SQL, Python, Databricks, Apache Spark, Lakehouse and various RDBMS).

This is a senior, hands on leadership role. You will lead a team working on a modern data platform, collaborating with engineering product teams delivering services and working closely with reporting teams and data scientists to help understand and optimise our digital services. You will set direction and standards for data product engineering, ensuring that data products are well designed, reliable, secure and aligned to user needs. While you will not be responsible for building or operating the underlying data platform, you will work in close partnership with platform teams to ensure data products are delivered efficiently and sustainably.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to:

• Responsible for the design and implementation of complex data flows connecting operational systems for data storage, analytics and business intelligence applications.


• Co-ordinate teams and set best practice and standards.


• Design and assure robust data models and integrations that meet standards, improve data quality, and enable reuse across teams.


• Lead performance optimisation across data platforms, anticipating risks and defining standards that balance cost, scalability and reliability.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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