Senior Data Engineer (Outside IR35)

Senior Data Engineer | Outside IR35 Contract | London Bridge / 4-day working week contract / 3-month contract with a strong chance of extension. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw 4-day working week contract outside contract. You'll always have Friday off! The dream... If you've been contracting for a while, you'll know how rare a setup like this is. Why is this contract needed? The business is scaling quickly following continued growth and demand from enterprise FTSE 500 customers, so they're investing heavily in their AI and data platform. They're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to help build the next generation of their data infrastructure, working directly alongside the Head of Data and Lead Data Scientist. You'll help shape the architecture before building production-grade solutions, with genuine ownership from day one. You'll get to work with all the latest tech on a greenfield project. The role: You'll be designing and building the data platform that powers enterprise AI applications. You'll need experience with: • Python • AWS • Dagster or Airflow • Terraform • PostgreSQL • Data Lakehouse architecture • Parquet / Delta Lake • Security-first engineering Experience with RAG pipelines, LangChain, Google ADK, pgvector, FastAPI, MLflow, AWS EKS or SOC2/ISO27001 environments would be a HUGE bonus. Why would you want this contract? • Genuine 4-day working week (Monday-Thursday, Friday off.) • Outside IR35 • Initial 3-month contract with a strong chance of extension - project expected to last ~6+ months • High-ownership engineering role • Work directly with senior AI and Data leaders • Influence architecture as well as implementation • Working with all the latest tech