Data Engineer
Posted 2 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Senior Data Engineer”
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Senior Data Engineer
Powering the future requires serious data infrastructure. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, scale, and champion modern data solutions for us.
About Sand
Sand Technologies is a global Physical AI company using data and AI to make critical industries work better. We partner with governments, cities and enterprises to improve how essential systems operate across healthcare, water, energy, telecommunications and infrastructure.
Our work delivers proven real-world impact. We have built AI systems that help manage London’s water supply, supported telecom network planning across hundreds of cities, and developed digital healthcare platforms serving tens of millions of people across Africa. From intelligent command centers to AI-powered infrastructure platforms, we help organizations sense, analyze and act in complex environments.
Our people are ambitious, curious and relentlessly practical. Our teams work alongside clients in the field, solving hard problems and deploying solutions that last. With colleagues across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US, we operate across the full stack - from research and engineering to deployment and capability building.
Our mission is simple: to harness AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.
About the role
As a Senior Data Engineer, your primary mission is to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and robust infrastructure to support data-intensive applications and advanced analytics solutions. Working with our UK-based Utilities client, you will handle critical infrastructure data, meaning reliability, scalability, and security are paramount.
In this role, you won't just write code, you will architect modern data solutions, oversee key engineering projects, and mentor growing engineering talent. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to shape the strategic direction of our data initiatives.
What you’ll do
- Data Pipeline & ETL Development: Lead the design, implementation, and automation of scalable ETL/ELT workflows. Ingest, process, and transform large volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse sources (including IoT and asset telemetry) into data lakes or lakehouses.
- Modern Data Architecture & Modeling: Architect efficient, modern data solutions (e.g., Lakehouse architectures). Design and optimize data models and schemas for high-performance storage, retrieval, and analysis.