Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer – 6 months – London, Hybrid - £600 p/d (Outside IR35) Experienced Senior Data Engineer required to join our client on an initial six-month contract to support the design, build, and delivery of enterprise-scale data platform solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for building core platform components while setting and maintaining engineering standards across the wider data engineering team. The successful candidate will lead the technical design and delivery of data pipelines, transformations, and data models across the platform, ensuring outputs are scalable, reliable, and fit for consumption as governed data products. You will work closely with data consultants, architects, governance teams, and integration engineers to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions within a modern cloud-based data environment. This role requires strong technical expertise across Databricks and modern lakehouse architectures, alongside the ability to provide leadership, mentorship, and best practice guidance to Data Engineers within the squad. Key Requirements • 6–10+ years’ experience in data engineering, including technical leadership responsibilities • Strong SQL skills and extensive experience building ETL/ELT pipelines at scale • Hands-on expertise with Databricks, including Autoloader, Delta Live Tables, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog • Strong experience designing and implementing lakehouse and medallion architecture patterns • Strong data modelling experience, including dimensional modelling, entity-based models, and SCD Type 2 handling • Experience designing and building scalable data ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines • Ability to implement data quality rules, validation frameworks, and testing patterns across data pipelines • Experience performance tuning pipelines, including partitioning, latency optimisation, and compute efficiency • Strong understanding of data governance, access control, and regulated data environments • Experience contributing to or building API-backed data products and analytics solutions • Proven ability to define engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineering teams • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, governance, and product teams Location: London (Hybrid, travel to office when required) Day rate: £600 p/d (Outside IR35) Duration: 6-months