

Lead Data Engineer
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This role is for a Lead Data Engineer on a 3-month contract, paying "£X" per hour, located "Remote". Key skills include Snowflake expertise, Matillion experience, and strong documentation abilities. Proven experience in data integration and migration design is required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
June 11, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
3 to 6 months
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🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
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📄 - Contract type
Outside IR35
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Data Integration #Documentation #Snowflake #Data Science #Matillion #Scala #Cloud #Data Governance #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #BI (Business Intelligence) #Data Engineering #Migration
Role description
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Who are we?
Billigence is a boutique data consultancy with global outreach & clientele, transforming the way organizations work with data. We leverage proven, cutting-edge technologies to design, tailor, and implement advanced Business Intelligence solutions with high added value across a wide range of applications from process digitization through to Cloud Data Warehousing, Visualisation, Data Science and Engineering, or Data Governance. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia with offices around the world, we help clients navigate difficult business conditions, remove inefficiencies, and enable scalable adoption of analytics culture.
What you’ll do:
Billigence are looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join our team on an initial 3-month contract, outside IR35.
• Recommend a scalable, high-performing implementation architecture aligned to clients' needs, considering all key requirements and constraints.
• Define and document the migration design.
• Lead design thinking workshops and technical decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with the data engineering team and the client team to ensure design alignment and high-quality implementation.
• Consider and implement a templated approach, reusable pipelines, and core integration patterns in Matillion/Snowflake.
• Oversee code quality, documentation, and promote best practices, and ensure high standards are used.
• Actively engage in hands-on development alongside Data Engineers, directly contributing to coding, troubleshooting, and delivering solutions.
• Supporting the definition of test approach.
What you'll need:
• Proven hands-on experience with Snowflake is essential, including performance tuning, architecture design, and data integration.
• Experience with Matillion is highly preferred; familiarity with developing reusable pipelines and integration patterns in Matillion is a strong advantage.
• Ability to define and document migration design, lead design thinking workshops, and make informed technical decisions.
• Experience working collaboratively with both client teams and internal data engineering teams to ensure alignment and high-quality delivery.
Inclusion and equal opportunities:
We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team at Billigence. We are an equal-opportunity and inclusive employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all applicants and employees. We will consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, age, parental or veteran status.
Got any questions?
For any questions related to the application process, please contact UK.Recruitment@Billigence.com