Data Engineer in Birmingham, United Kingdom

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Junior Data Engineer

Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: £ 26,227.50 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday

2-stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Role purpose

We are looking for a curious and analytically minded Junior Data Engineer to join our team as we scale AI-powered solutions. You will work alongside AI engineers and ML ops teams to build and maintain the data foundations & pipelines that underpin intelligent systems, from entity resolution and confidence scoring to structured data pipelines and insight generation.

This role is well suited to a recent graduate or someone in the early stages of their career who has strong fundamentals and a genuine appetite to grow in a modern AI engineering environment.

Key responsibilities

• Design and maintain data pipelines that ingest, clean, and normalise data from structured and unstructured sources
• Build logic and confidence scoring frameworks to produce trusted, conflict-free data records
• Clean and validate data to ensure uniformity, accuracy, and consistency across sources
• Produce exploratory data analysis and visualisations to surface trends, anomalies, and best path forward to create data ready for AI solutions
• Collaborate with AI Engineers & ML Devops to ensure clean, well-attributed data reaches downstream models
• Analyse AI agents usage across the business
• Technologies: Python, R, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter, Dbt, Spark, PowerBi, Git, REST APIs

Skills and experience

Core Analytical Skills

• Data wrangling, cleaning, and normalisation for structured & unstructured data
• Data validation to ensure uniformity and feature engineering when needed
• Entity resolution and deduplication
• Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
• Data quality assessment and monitoring
• Clear technical documentation
• Proficiency in Python

Data Visualisation

• Designing clear, insight-driven charts and graphs
• Presenting data in pictorial and summary formats
• Translating complex analysis into accessible visuals
• Building dashboards and reporting outputs

Professional skills

• Clear communication of technical findings to non-technical audiences
• Collaborative working with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
• Structured, methodical approach to problem solving
• Willingness to ask questions and learn from feedback

Nice to have

• Exposure to NLP or text classification
• Familiarity with graph & semantic layers
• Experience with cloud data platforms
• Understanding of AI data governance principles

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

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