Sellick Partnership

Data Engineer

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This role is a Data Engineer position on a 6-month fixed-term contract, offering £50,000 - £65,000. Key skills include Python (Pandas), PySpark, and experience with Palantir Foundry. Remote work is available, with expectations for data pipeline automation and orchestration.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
295
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🗓️ - Date
April 18, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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📄 - Contract
Fixed Term
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Deployment #Data Pipeline #BI (Business Intelligence) #PySpark #Scala #Data Strategy #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Monitoring #Pandas #Automation #Python #Strategy #Data Engineering #Palantir Foundry #ML (Machine Learning) #Data Processing #Data Science #Data Manipulation #Spark (Apache Spark) #Data Architecture
Role description
Data Engineer £50,000 - £65,000 6 Month Fixed Term Generous Car Allowance, 5% bonus and private medical Flexible working options - open to location Sellick Partnership are partnering with our long-standing client to recruit a Data Engineer on an initial 6 month fixed-term basis. This is a fantastic oppotunity to join the organisation's data transformation journey, actively shaping and delivering the company’s ambitious data strategy. The organisation is consolidating it's data environment into Palantir Foundry, which is the cornerstone of our enterprise data architecture, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the organisations capabilities in world-class data analytics, data science, and overall business intelligence. Responsibilities: • Develop high-performance data pipelines using Python (Pandas) or Spark within Palantir Foundry, ensuring seamless data transformation and integration to support analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases across the enterprise. • Design and implement reusable, scalable, and well-documented data workflows that ingest, transform, and curate data within Palantir Foundry, enabling the business to generate actionable insights and drive strategic decision-making. • Serve as a subject-matter expert on enterprise data within the business, with a deep understanding of how data from core business processes flows through Palantir Foundry and is utilised across the organisation to support end-to-end reporting and analytics. • Lead workshops with business stakeholders to capture data requirements, translating these into flexible and scalable designs that utilise Palantir Foundry's advanced toolsets to deliver reliable, high-quality data solutions that align with strategic objectives. • Demonstrate Palantir Foundry’s full potential by showcasing its capabilities to a diverse set of business stakeholders, guiding them in leveraging the platform’s full range of functionality to deliver transformative business outcomes. • Ensure the availability, performance, and integrity of all data services within Palantir Foundry, continuously monitoring and optimising data processes to meet stringent service level agreements (SLAs) and business requirements. • Develop and implement robust support and operational models for Palantir Foundry data services, ensuring a proactive approach to issue resolution, incident management, and ongoing maintenance to guarantee uninterrupted service. What we are looking for: • Strong coding skills in Python (Pandas) and PySpark: Essential experience in using Python (Pandas) and PySpark for data manipulation, transformation, and pipeline development within Palantir Foundry (desirbale), ensuring high performance and scalability across various data flows. • Data pipeline automation and orchestration: Experience with Foundry's Pipeline Builder for designing, developing, and automating ETL processes that ensure the availability of clean, curated data for business analytics and decision-making. • Code development, testing, and deployment in Foundry: Demonstrated ability to design, test, and • deploy code using integration with CI/CD pipelines, ensuring data processes are efficiently managed from development through to production. • Experience with Palantir Foundry is a real bonus! Please apply by Friday 24th April to be considered for this exciting opportunity at a growing and ambitious organisation. Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.