hands-on Senior Data Engineer at Eutopia Solutions Ltd, UK, 3 Months, £Contract Rate

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER - AI PLATFORM - Python | AWS | Terraform | Dagster/Airflow | PostgreSQL
Outside IR35 | 4-day week | London Bridge/Hybrid | Initial 3 months

We re looking for a highly experienced Senior Data Engineer to help design and build the next generation of a rapidly growing enterprise AI platform.

This is a genuinely hands-on role offering significant ownership. You ll work directly with senior Data and AI leaders, helping shape the architecture before building secure, production-grade data infrastructure.
THE ROLE

• Design and build a scalable data platform supporting enterprise AI applications
• Shape the data architecture and make key technical decisions
• Develop reliable data pipelines and orchestration workflows
• Build cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS
• Create lakehouse capabilities using Parquet and Delta Lake
• Work closely with Data Science and Engineering colleagues
• Embed security, observability and engineering best practice from the outset

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Advanced Python engineering
• Strong commercial AWS experience
• Terraform and infrastructure as code
• Dagster or Airflow
• PostgreSQL
• Data lakehouse architecture
• Parquet and Delta Lake
• Building secure, production-grade data platforms
• Ability to operate with considerable autonomy

HIGHLY DESIRABLE

• RAG pipelines or production GenAI applications
• LangChain or Google ADK
• pgvector and FastAPI
• MLflow
• AWS EKS or Kubernetes
• SOC 2 or ISO 27001-regulated environments

THE CONTRACT

• Outside IR35
• Genuine four-day working week, Monday to Thursday
• Initial three-month contract with strong potential to extend
• London - Hybrid
• Greenfield platform with meaningful architectural ownership

This role is best suited to a senior, hands-on engineer who has personally designed and delivered modern data infrastructure—not someone limited to maintaining existing ETL pipelines.
Please apply with an up-to-date CV and briefly outline a data or AI platform you have helped take into production.