Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Data Engineer for our client a government organisation in West Berkshire.The successful post holder will display strong system integration capabilities to ensure that data flows between systems are aligned, reliable, and continuously improved.Responsibilities will include implementing platform enhancements, managing operational processes, and delivering system and database customisations-covering SQL Server, QTC/Unit4 environments, and system-to-system migration assessments. The post ensures that data remains trusted, secure, well-structured, and readily available to support analytics, reporting, and digital services.This role is a temporary contract initially for 3 months with the possibility to extend. This role is hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office required.Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelinesImplement reliability practices (observability, SLAs/SLOs, testing, data contracts).Optimise storage and compute performance.Deploy pipelines using CI/CD and IaC.Deliver curated datasets and semantic layers for BI, analytics, and ML.Support ML feature engineering and model delivery.Define scalable data architecture patterns and integration designs (ingestion, storage, transformation, analytics).Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.Ensure secure, efficient, and compliant dataflows across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem systems.Embed dat