GL Global

Senior Data Analytics Engineer - Python, SQL, DBT - Fully Remote - Contract

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This role is for a Senior Data Analytics Engineer with expertise in Python, SQL, and DBT. It's a fully remote contract position, focusing on refactoring legacy systems and optimizing AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines. Immediate availability required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
πŸ’± - Currency
Β£ GBP
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πŸ’° - Day rate
Unknown
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πŸ—“οΈ - Date
January 29, 2026
πŸ•’ - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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πŸ“„ - Contract
Unknown
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πŸ”’ - Security
Unknown
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πŸ“ - Location detailed
United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Databricks #Spark (Apache Spark) #Data Engineering #AWS Glue #Data Quality #PySpark #Code Reviews #Python #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #SQL (Structured Query Language) #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #Athena #dbt (data build tool)
Role description
Senior Data Analytics Engineer - Python, SQL, DBT - Fully Remote - Contract We’re partnering with a global enterprise to find a Senior Data Analytics Engineer to join their Customer function at a critical moment. This is a hands-on, engineering-first role for someone who thrives on fixing broken systems, taming legacy code, and raising the bar on data quality. The data is rich and global - but the existing SQL and Python codebase needs stabilising, refactoring, and modernising. That’s where you come in. Key Responsibilities - Refactor inefficient legacy SQL for performance and clarity - Repair and optimise AWS Glue / PySpark pipelines - Define coding standards, SQL linting rules, and PR templates - Act as a bar-raiser in code reviews, mentoring engineers in modular, defensive data engineering Experience - Expert SQL: Confident refactoring multi-thousand-line queries into clean, logical models - DBT: Proven experience setting up dbt projects from scratch - Python & Spark: Able to debug and optimise PySpark jobs - AWS: Hands-on with S3, Athena, IAM (Databricks or Glue experience ideal) This is an immediate requirement, please apply immediately for further details and a confidential discussion.