Closing date for applications: 28/07/2026
Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time
Remote / On-site Hybrid
You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.
Managerial / Technical Lead
This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.
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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.
So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.
Job description
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineering
- We’re building a brand new Data Products factory capability at the Private Banking & Wealth Management (PBWM) franchise and are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to shape thecanonical and semanticdata layers that power our Analytics, AI, reporting, and self service capabilities
- You’ll sit at the heart of our data ecosystem, partnering with Business, Technology and Functions to design clean, reusable data assets from the ground up, and turning them into trusted, governed data products that the business can rely on every day
- This is a hands on role with significant influence over how data is structured, governed, and consumed across PBWM
What you'll do
As a Data Engineer, you’ll be looking to simplify our organisation by developing innovative data driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and design, inspiring to be commercially successful while keeping our customers, and the bank’s data, safe and secure.
You’ll drive customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tool to gather and build data solutions. You’ll support our strategic direction by engaging with the data engineering community to deliver opportunities, along with carrying out complex data engineering tasks to build a scalable data architecture. In addition, you’ll build a strong understanding of our Data Product ecosystem and contribute to the design and delivery of reusable Data Products that support PBWM business and functions.
Your responsibilities will also include:
- Work with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into intuitive canonical and semantic data models
- Design and evolve standardised, cross domain data models such as party, account, deposit, mortgages that align with our enterprise data model
- Build and maintain governed analytical data products, ensuring they are well documented, discoverable, and consistently used across teams
- Define and implement data quality checks, SLAs, and governance practices so that our data is accurate, reliable, and compliant
- Collaborate with data architects, engineers, BI teams and data scientists to ensure models are scalable, performant, and easy to consume on our cloud data platform
The skills you'll need
To thrive in this role, you’ll need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies and experience of extracting value and features from large scale data. You’ll also bring practical experience of programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals.
Additionally, you’ll need:
- Significant experience as an Analytics Engineer, BI Engineer, or Data Architect role in complex, data rich environments
- Proven track record of managing governed data products with clear ownership, SLAs, documentation, and quality controls
- A strong track record designing canonical data models that standardise entities across multiple systems or domains and semantic layers that present data in a clearly to different audiences or stakeholders
- Excellent SQL and data modelling skills on modern formats like iceberg on AWS, with confidence working on large and complex datasets in the cloud
- Hands on experience with modern analytics in engineering practices such as, transformation-as-code, testing, version control and automated deployment
- Ability to communicate complex data concepts in simple terms and lead workshops with nontechnical stakeholders
Your benefits breakdown
Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.
Tap each segment for details.
Your pay package
100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.
+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.
up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.
Your leave allowance
30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.
3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.
3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.
Total rewards package
Welcome to our Gogarburn hub
Set in large grounds including beautiful woodland, Gogarburn offers a conference centre, a business school with hotel bedrooms, a restaurant, relaxing zen gardens, onsite parking, and excellent transport links.
Key facts:
- Surrounded by 85 acres of woodland
- Our carparks provide electric vehicle charging
- Opened in 2005
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