Contract Data Engineer/Developer at Synergize Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom, 3 Months, to £560 per day Outside IR35

Remote working U.K

*SC and NPPV3 clearance essential*

Outside IR35

*Please do NOT apply if you do not hold SC/NPPV3 clearance, these are non negotiables*

We're looking for a Data Engineer/Developer to join a specialist team delivering innovative data solutions within the law enforcement and digital investigations space.

This role centres on transforming complex investigative and forensic datasets into structured intelligence, developing automated data processing workflows, and supporting the integration of policing data standards into modern analytical platforms.

You'll work with large volumes of digital evidence and intelligence data, designing robust transformation pipelines and automation that enable investigators and analysts to derive value from complex information quickly and accurately. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a background in digital forensics, eDiscovery, law enforcement data, or data engineering who enjoys solving complex technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data transformation pipelines for investigative and forensic datasets.
• Develop conversion logic to transform data into structured intelligence formats, including IES-to-SCREENING mappings where required.
• Create automated workflows to process, validate and enrich large volumes of digital evidence.
• Develop tools and services that improve the ingestion, transformation and quality of forensic data.
• Work closely with technical specialists and subject matter experts to define mapping rules and transformation logic.
• Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts for new data services and automation.
• Produce clean, maintainable code and contribute to continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Support Agile delivery within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

Essential

• SC and NPPV3 clearances
• Strong programming skills in Python or Java.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines or automated data processing workflows.
• Experience working with structured and semi-structured data such as XML, JSON or similar formats.
• Understanding of data transformation, mapping and validation techniques.
• Experience handling large or complex datasets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within Agile delivery teams.

You'll be someone who enjoys working with complex data, can translate technical requirements into practical solutions, and has a genuine interest in solving problems within digital investigations and law enforcement environments.

Whether your experience comes from policing, digital forensics, eDiscovery, consultancy or software engineering, we'd like to hear from you if you're passionate about building data-driven solutions that make a real operational impact.