Staff Data Engineer | Contract | Up to £1,300/day | Inside IR35
Location: Hybrid – London (3 days per week on-site)
Rate: Up to £1,300/day
Contract: Initial 6 months
IR35: Inside IR35
We’re supporting a major UK financial services organisation through a significant programme of data engineering modernisation and transformation .
We’re looking for a genuinely Staff-level Data Engineer who combines deep hands-on engineering capability with the technical leadership to challenge existing approaches, shape solutions and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
This is not a hands-off architecture role. You’ll be expected to shape the thinking, design the solution and get into the code to prove and deliver it.
The role
You’ll work across a major modernisation of the organisation’s data estate, including the transformation and migration of large-scale data pipelines, development of new data products and adoption of modern, AI-assisted engineering practices .
Responsibilities will include:
Providing Staff-level technical leadership across complex data engineering initiatives
Remaining deeply hands-on with Python, PySpark and Spark
Modernising and migrating large-scale data pipelines across AWS
Designing and challenging approaches across AWS Glue, Airflow and associated technologies
Shaping scalable data architectures, frameworks and engineering patterns
Supporting the development of new data products and reusable capabilities
Championing AI-assisted development to improve engineering quality and delivery speed
Raising engineering standards and capability across multiple teams
What we're looking for
Deep hands-on Python/PySpark and Apache Spark expertise
Strong AWS data engineering , particularly AWS Glue
Strong Apache Airflow experience
Experience delivering complex data transformation or modernisation programmes
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Experience operating at Staff, ...
Staff Data Engineer | Contract | Up to £1,300/day | Inside IR35 employer: WeDo Technology Solutions Limited Careers
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