Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineer (Contract) – ClickHouse / Ingestion Fully Remote (UK) 6 Months Initial Senior Data Engineer and Mid Level Our client are growing their data platform and looking for two Data Engineers who can build and run high‑volume ingestion pipelines across a modern, high‑performance stack. You’ll work end‑to‑end on ingestion, warehousing, lakehouse, orchestration, and platform reliability with an immediate focus on ClickHouse + Kafka at scale. What You’ll Be Doing day to day - • High‑throughput ingestion into ClickHouse • Streaming pipelines with Kafka • Extracting from BigQuery, Elasticsearch, and third‑party APIs • Working across S3/GCS, Parquet, Iceberg, Kubernetes (EKS) • Building reliable, observable, production‑ready pipelines • Using AI‑assisted coding tools as part of your workflow Must Have experience with - • Strong Python + production pipeline experience • Deep ClickHouse knowledge • Kafka fundamentals (delivery semantics, backpressure, schema registry) • API ingestion patterns (pagination, rate limits, retries) • Operational mindset: observability, debugging, recovery Bonus: TypeScript/Node, dbt, Iceberg, CDC, ML/LLM pipelines, media/ad‑tech experience. Levels Mid‑Level Engineer: Delivers scoped pipelines with light guidance Senior Engineer: Owns subsystems, sets patterns, drives architecture