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Data Engineer (Python focused)

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a fast-paced technology team working across data, analytics and emerging AI solutions. This is a 12-month day rate contract,  offering the opportunity to work on scalable…

Pay rate £400 – £450/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 21 August 2026

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We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a fast-paced technology team working across data, analytics and emerging AI solutions. This is a 12-month day rate contract,  offering the opportunity to work on scalable data solutions while getting exposure to modern cloud and AI technologies.

Your Responsibilities

Design and develop reliable data pipelines for large and complex datasets

Build solutions to extract, transform and process data from a range of internal and external sources

Develop scalable applications and data processing solutions using Python

Work with cloud-based technologies, particularly AWS, to support data and analytics workloads

Help take ideas from initial concepts and prototypes through to production

Work closely with developers, data specialists and business stakeholders to deliver technical solutions

Identify opportunities to improve existing systems, processes and data workflows

Support production environments and participate in an on-call rotation where required

Your Experience

6+ years’ experience in software, data engineering or enterprise development

Strong commercial experience with Python, with Java or C# also considered

Solid understanding of relational databases and experience working with technologies such as Oracle, Snowflake or similar

Strong understanding of data pipelines, ETL and working with large datasets

Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud environments

Good understanding of object-oriented programming and core data structures

Experience working with tools such as Pandas and NumPy would be beneficial

Comfortable working with REST APIs, scripting and Linux/Windows environments

Experience with CI/CD, cloud migration or scalable data processing would be advantageous

A practical, problem-solving mindset with the ability to take ownership and deliver in a fast-moving environment

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