15 contract data engineer jobs found in London

Senior Data Engineer - Contract - Python/ Azure/ airflow/ TypeScript/ APIs Outside IR35 | £600–£800/day | 6 months initially | August/September start Senior contract Data Engineers for an initial 6-month contract, helping scale the data layer behind a global investment platform. The project is about turning that fragmented data into a clean, scalable and reliable data layer. Data engineer deliverables: Build and evolve data ingestion pipelines from multiple external data sources Design scalable data models across complex investment data Build APIs and product-facing data services Solve reconciliation and data-quality problems at scale Develop lakehouse and streaming capabilities Improve reliability, observability and performance Develop AI-driven approaches to ingestion, processing and reconciliation Technology environment: Core: TypeScript, Python, SQL, Azure Data engineering: Azure Data Lake, Airflow, Delta, lakehouse architecture,...

Senior Data Engineer London | Flexible, hybrid working pattern | Outside IR35 | 12-month engagement We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to shape modern data platforms, solve complex engineering challenges, and deliver data solutions that create business value. You'll join an organisation investing heavily in its data capabilities, working alongside architects, analysts, data scientists, and engineering teams to build production-grade data platforms supporting analytics, AI, and operational decision-making. Why Join? Work on large-scale data and cloud transformation initiatives Influence architecture, engineering standards, and platform strategy Deliver solutions with measurable business impact Join a collaborative team of experienced data professionals Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain scalable data products and pipelines Own solutions from requirements gathering through to deployment and monitoring Develop cloud-native data platforms using...

Forward Deployed AI Engineer London, 2 Days On Site Part time - 3 days Per Week 12 Months Long Outside IR35 £450 - £550 Per Day The Company They are a specialist investment-focused organisation with a portfolio of businesses across multiple sectors. They are actively exploring how AI can enhance operations, improve workflows, and unlock efficiencies across their portfolio. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, they are looking for an experienced contractor who can influence strategy while remaining hands-on with delivery. The Role and Deliverables Assess existing business processes and identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and optimisation. Design and build AI solutions using technologies such as LLMs, agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Create practical roadmaps for AI adoption, including prioritised implementation plans. Engage with business stakeholders to communicate opportunities, risks and...

Analytics Engineer l DBT Core l DBT Cloud l Bigquery l Data modelling l data warehouse l SQL l End-to-end l 6-Month Contract | £500- £520 per day | Outside IR35 l Hybrid London We 're working with a fast-moving, product-led business looking for an Analytics Engineer to support their data team on an initial 6-month contract. This is a hands-on role sitting between data engineering and analytics - building clean, reliable data models that power reporting and decision-making across the business with a strong emphasis on DBT You 'll be working closely with BI and engineering teams both onshore and offshore, owning dbt models end-to-end and helping improve data quality, performance, and overall usability. What you 'll be doing: Owning and resolving pipeline failures Building new data marts for the BI team Improving our existing data layer 's performance for BI analysis Migrating existing business semantic logic from Tableau into our dbt project...

AI Technical Lead | Generative AI & Machine Learning 12-Month Contract | £500 - £700 per day | Outside IR35 | London 167 Solutions is working with an organisation looking to appoint an experienced AI Technical Lead to lead the design and delivery of production-ready Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate across AI strategy, architecture and engineering , while still being comfortable getting involved in the technology. The Role You will take technical ownership of AI initiatives from initial concept through to production, working with engineering, product and business stakeholders to build scalable AI solutions. Key responsibilities will include: Leading the technical design and delivery of Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions Designing enterprise-grade LLM, RAG and AI agent architectures Building and integrating conversational,...

DevOps Engineer - Platform Engineer - Security - CAF - CAF 4 - AWS - 3 month contract - Paying up to £500 per day(Outside IR35) - Immediate starters Overview Supporting a well-known UK digital consumer brand on a critical engagement to evidence compliance with the CAF 4 framework. The role combines hands-on cloud security remediation with compliance documentation and stakeholder reporting, primarily across AWS with some GCP involvement. Key Responsibilities Assess current security controls and identify remediation needed to meet CAF 4 compliance objectives Implement changes across AWS infrastructure (and GCP where needed) - covering IAM, MFA, network segmentation, TLS/encryption, centralised logging, and backup/recovery Produce clear, audit-ready documentation and evidence to support compliance outcomes Work with internal teams and third-party suppliers to validate shared security responsibilities Provide weekly progress updates to senior stakeholders,...

Senior Data Engineer | Outside IR35 Contract 6 months | 1 Day pw in London | £550 - 700pd Harvey Nash are working with a global mining company, who are looking to bolster their team with an experienced Senior Data Engineer on a contract basis. The role requires 1 day pw in London - Goodge St station 1 min walk away. Essential experience: SQL - Query optimisation, indexing strategy, performance diagnosis Azure - Data Factory, Databricks, DevOps Spark, Synapse, PowerBI Stakeholder Management Individual contributor, standard setter, strong communicator Contract Details: 6 months - extensions possible Outside IR35 £550 - 700pd Hybrid - 1 day pw in London (near Goodge St Station) ASAP Start If you're interested in this position, please apply now.

DevSecOps Engineer - Platform Engineer - Security - CAF 4 - CAF - AWS - 3 month contract - Paying up to £500 per day(Outside IR35) - Immediate starters Overview Supporting a well-known UK digital consumer brand on a critical engagement to evidence compliance with the CAF 4 framework. The role combines hands-on cloud security remediation with compliance documentation and stakeholder reporting, primarily across AWS with some GCP involvement. Key Responsibilities Assess current security controls and identify remediation needed to meet CAF 4 compliance objectives Implement changes across AWS infrastructure (and GCP where needed) - covering IAM, MFA, network segmentation, TLS/encryption, centralised logging, and backup/recovery Produce clear, audit-ready documentation and evidence to support compliance outcomes Work with internal teams and third-party suppliers to validate shared security responsibilities Provide weekly progress updates to senior stakeholders,...

Cloud Engineer 6-month contract - likelihood of extension £500 - £525 per day, Outside IR35 London - Hybrid One of our clients, a successful and well-respected AI consultancy is looking for a Cloud Engineer They are a specialist data and AI consultancy that helps businesses maximize value using the Databricks platform. They design data strategies, build modern cloud data lakehouses, deploy autonomous AI and generative agents, and create governance frameworks to turn raw data into commercial assets Due to ongoing demand from existing clients and winning a number of new projects, they are looking for a number of experienced Data professionals to join them Essential Skills & Experience 5+ years' experience in Data Engineering Extensive experience with both Terraform and Terragrunt deploying data platforms (preferably Databricks Experience designing scalable data pipelines for machine learning workloads Experience implementing orchestration tools such as...

AI DevOps Engineer - Azure AI Foundry Contract Length: 6 months Location: Remote with ad-hoc travel Rate: Up to £600 per day IR35 Status: Outside IR35 Start Date: ASAP About the Client A leading global insurance organisation is investing heavily in AI and is building new AI products and services across the business. They are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help establish the engineering foundations needed to deploy, automate, govern, and operate these AI solutions at enterprise scale. Role Overview This is not a traditional DevOps role. You will sit at the intersection of DevOps, software development and AI, building the CI/CD, automation, Infrastructure-as-Code and governance capabilities needed to take AI solutions from development into secure, repeatable production environments. You will work closely with AI, DevOps and Engineering teams, with a particular focus on integrating Azure AI Foundry into existing enterprise engineering...

2x Data Engineering Positions - Lead/Senior/Mid Outside IR35: £450 - £525 per day ASAP Start: 6 months initial contract Primarily remote: at maximum once a month travel to London We're supporting a key client in a major CRM migration programme that's looking to share the future of their growing data function. As part of this, we're looking to engage 2x Data Engineers, 1 Lead/Senior and 1 Senior/Mid level. You'll be joining at a genuinely exciting stage: the business is investing heavily in new technology and modernizing its data platform from the ground up. Rather than inheriting years of technical debt, you'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, standards, and ways of working from the beginning. Tech Stack: * Snowflake * dbt * Python * AWS * PowerBI Responsibilities: * Designing, developing, and evolving scalable Data Warehouse and ELT solutions * Driving modern DataOps practices including CI/CD, GitOps, testing, and automation * Implementing robust,...

Join a growing data function focused on modernising cloud infrastructure and delivering scalable data solutions across the business. Salary:  £525 - 550 per day Senior Data Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35 | £525-550/day | London (Hybrid) | Initial 3 Months We're working with a client who is looking to bring in an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support the evolution of their cloud data platform. You'll be joining a growing data function focused on improving engineering standards, modernising data infrastructure, and delivering scalable data solutions across the business. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys building robust data platforms, implementing best practices, and driving technical improvements within a cloud environment. This is an initial 3-month contract with an immediate start and strong potential for extension. Key Responsibilities: Design, build and optimise data pipelines using modern Data...

Join a growing data function focused on modernising cloud infrastructure and delivering scalable data solutions across the business. Salary: £525 - 550 per day Senior Data Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35 | £525-550/day | London (Hybrid) | Initial 3 Months We're working with a client who is looking to bring in an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support the evolution of their cloud data platform. You'll be joining a growing data function focused on improving engineering standards, modernising data infrastructure, and delivering scalable data solutions across the business. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys building robust data platforms, implementing best practices, and driving technical improvements within a cloud environment. This is an initial 3-month contract with an immediate start and strong potential for extension. Key Responsibilities: Design, build and optimise data pipelines using modern Data Engineering best...

Senior Data Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35 | £525-550/day | London (Hybrid) | Initial 3 months We're working with a client who is looking to bring in an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support the evolution of their cloud data platform. You'll be joining a growing data function focused on improving engineering standards, modernising data infrastructure, and delivering scalable data solutions across the business. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys building robust data platforms, implementing best practices, and driving technical improvements within a cloud environment. This is an initial 3-month contract with an immediate start and strong potential for extension. Key Responsibilities Design, build and optimise data pipelines using modern Data Engineering best practices. Develop scalable, reusable and well-documented data solutions. Support the evolution of cloud-based data infrastructure and tooling. Implement engineering standards across data...

Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP/Kubernetes We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to take ownership of the cloud infrastructure supporting a major new data platform. This is a hands-on contract role focused on GCP, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability within secure, highly regulated environments. The Role You will desiHqagn, build and operate a distributed cloud platform spanning edge and central Kubernetes clusters. The environment uses a predominantly open-source technology stack, placing particular emphasis on networking, inter-cluster connectivity, platform security and deployment into restricted environments. You will work within an autonomous engineering team, establishing the infrastructure foundations that enable reliable and secure software delivery. Key responsibilities will include: Designing and operating secure, resilient infrastructure within Google Cloud. Building and managing production Kubernetes clusters using GKE. Supporting a...