Data Engineer – Python | GCP | KAFKA | SC Clearance - £600 OUTSIDE IR35 - Remote at Few&Far, London Area, £Contract Rate

Data Engineer – Python | GCP | KAFKA | SC Clearance - £600 OUTSIDE IR35 - Remote

I’m looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a greenfield technology programme building a highly scalable data platform supporting advanced AI capabilities and maritime surveillance across the North Atlantic.

You’ll join a highly autonomous engineering team taking an existing proven prototype through to a production-grade platform, ingesting and processing large volumes of complex, real-world data.

💷 Up to £600 per day, Outside IR35

💻 FULLY REMOTE

📈 Initial 6 months - scope for extension / perm

‼️ SC clearance required for this role - UK APPLICANTS ONLY

The role:

• Design and productionise scalable, high-throughput distributed data pipelines
• Onboard and normalise diverse data sources into consistent, queryable schemas
• Build the core data foundations used by AI/ML models and agents
• Develop a knowledge layer allowing AI agents to read and write data with full traceability back to source
• Work with complex IoT, geospatial, time-series and maritime data
• Build secure, high-performance production systems using Python
• Help shape technical and architectural decisions in a genuinely greenfield environment

What we’re looking for:

• Strong production-level Python
• Experience building distributed data pipelines at scale
• Strong understanding of data modelling, schema design and data lineage/provenance
• Solid software engineering fundamentals
• Experience taking data systems from prototype → production
• SC Clearance or willingness/eligibility to undergo clearance

Highly desirable experience:

• Kafka / Flink or other streaming technologies
• Spark, Iceberg, Trino and modern lakehouse architectures
• Knowledge graphs / graph databases
• ML/AI platform integration
• Entity resolution / data fusion
• Geospatial or time-series data
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Restricted or air-gapped environments

This is an opportunity to work on a technically challenging, high-priority programme where the data platform will sit directly underneath sophisticated AI and optimisation capabilities.

📩 Interested? Apply or message me directly for more information.