11 lead data engineer jobs found in London

Lead Data Engineer (Azure Synapse | Synapse Notebooks | Azure DevOps) Contract 6-month initial term, with strong likelihood of extension Up to c £500 per day Outside IR35 Remote or hybrid (West London office if preferred) We are looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to play a key role in the development of a modern Azure data platform, with a strong focus on Azure Synapse, Synapse notebooks and engineering best practice . This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys owning solutions from requirements through to deployment, working closely with business stakeholders and delivering robust, production-grade data platforms. You will be responsible for: Designing and developing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and reusable data products Building and maintaining Azure Synapse solutions, with particular emphasis on Synapse notebooks, Serverless SQL and Synapse pipelines...

Join a forward-thinking organisation where your Microsoft security expertise will drive meaningful improvements in cyber security capability and maturity. Salary: £500 - 550 per day Security Engineer Security Engineer with strong expertise across the Microsoft security stack, including proven experience implementing Purview, who enjoys working in lean, evolving cyber security functions and can drive meaningful improvements in security capability and maturity. Day Rate: £500-£550pd IR35 Status: Outside Travel: 3 days a week in Central London Office Duration: 6 months initial Responsibilities: Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of the Microsoft security ecosystem, including Defender, Entra ID, Sentinel, Intune, and Purview Deliver end to end Purview implementations, including Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Data Lifecycle Management, Insider Risk Management, and compliance solutions across Microsoft 365 Work closely with IT,...

Security Engineer Security Engineer with strong expertise across the Microsoft security stack, including proven experience implementing Purview, who enjoys working in lean, evolving cyber security functions and can drive meaningful improvements in security capability and maturity. Day Rate: £500-£550pd IR35 Status: Outside Travel: 3 days a week in Central London Office Duration: 6 months initial Responsibilities: Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of the Microsoft security ecosystem, including Defender, Entra ID, Sentinel, Intune, and Purview. Deliver end to end Purview implementations, including Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Data Lifecycle Management, Insider Risk Management, and compliance solutions across Microsoft 365. Work closely with IT, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to deploy security controls, respond to emerging threats, and ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements. Bring proven...

AI Engineer - LLM & Agentic Systems London - Hybrid. Circa £550 – £650 per day (negotiable DOE) Contract (Outside IR35) Agentic AI / Machine Learning. Company: Our client is a globally established B2B information and professional services business, operating across multiple high-value industry sectors. They have established data science and machine learning engineering teams already delivering in production, and are now expanding their AI capability significantly across the global organisation. This is a role for people who ship. If you've built LLM-powered systems and agentic workflows that are live in production - not demos, not prototypes - and you want to do that at genuine scale, this is worth applying for. What you'll be working on as an AI Engineer - LLM & Agentic Systems: Designing and building AI agents and agentic workflows - combining LLMs, RAG, reasoning, memory and tool orchestration to solve real, complex business...

This role is delivered within secure environments. Candidates must be eligible for UK SC and DV clearance and hold UK citizenship. Opening: Join the Mission At ByDesign Secure, we believe that world-class security shouldn't be an afterthought—it should be the foundation. We are an independent, outputs-based consultancy dedicated to solving the most complex data assurance challenges in the UK public sector. Currently, we working on a landmark transformation of a cross-government secure IT system. This is an exciting opportunity to help architect a private cloud environment from the ground up and modernize the end-user services that power national decision-making. We don't believe in ʺbilling by the hourʺ or rigid hierarchies; we are a lean, expert team focused on delivering high-impact technical outcomes. If you are a self-starter who thrives on autonomy and wants to see your engineering or architectural decisions shape the future of sovereign security, we want to talk to you....

Join a tech-driven financial services business as a GCP Data Engineer and help turn complex data into valuable business insights. Salary: £550 per day GCP Data Engineer - Financial Services - Outside IR35 - Hybrid We're looking for an experienced GCP Data Engineer to join a tech-driven financial services business on an initial 3-month contract basis (extension likely, Outside IR35). You'll join a small, high-performing data team responsible for ingesting and processing large volumes of customer data, allowing the business to draw actionable business insights. Reporting into the Head of Data, you'll bring strong commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), alongside expertise in DBT for data transformation, data modelling, and building robust ETL/ELT pipelines. This is a highly technical engineering role where you'll play a key part in designing, developing, and optimising scalable data solutions. Location: Remote first, 1 day per week in South West London or...

Full job description Join a tech-driven financial services business as a GCP Data Engineer and help turn complex data into valuable business insights. Salary:  £550 per day GCP Data Engineer - Financial Services - Outside IR35 - Hybrid We're looking for an experienced GCP Data Engineer to join a tech-driven financial services business on an initial 3-month contract basis (extension likely, Outside IR35). You'll join a small, high-performing data team responsible for ingesting and processing large volumes of customer data, allowing the business to draw actionable business insights. Reporting into the Head of Data, you'll bring strong commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), alongside expertise in DBT for data transformation, data modelling, and building robust ETL/ELT pipelines. This is a highly technical engineering role where you'll play a key part in designing, developing, and optimising scalable data solutions. Location:...

GCP Data Engineer - Financial Services - Outside IR35 - Hybrid We're looking for a an experienced GCP Data Engineer to join a tech driven financial services business on an initial 3 month contract basis (extension likely, Outside IR35). You'll join a small, high-performing data team responsible for ingesting and processing large volumes of customer data allowing the business to draw actionable business insights. Reporting into the Head of Data, you'll bring strong commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), alongside expertise in DBT for data transformation, data modelling, and building robust ETL/ELT pipelines. This is a highly technical engineering role where you'll play a key part in designing, developing, and optimising scalable data solutions. Location: Remote first, 1 day per week in South West London or 4 days per month Key requirements: Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Proven expertise using DBT as a...

Internal Title: Senior Full Stack Developer Location: London, UK (Hybrid - typically 1-2 days per month in office) Contract: Permanent, Full-time OR Outside IR35 Contract, 6 months with view to extend Day Rate (contract): £500-550 per day Package (perm): £70,000 - £80,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below) About Appvia Appvia is a specialist cloud, platform, and solutions engineering consultancy, helping organisations modernise software systems, improve developer productivity, and adopt cloud-native practices that enable long-term, sustainable delivery. Our software engineering capability focuses on modern application development, domain-driven design, and improving delivery outcomes through better architecture, testing, and developer experience. We work across complex, high-impact environments in both the public and private sector, delivering solutions where quality, scalability, and reliability are critical. About The Role We're hiring...

Data Engineer - Quantexa Contract: 6 months Location: London (Hybrid or Remote) Daily rate: £500 outside IR35 Currently hold a Security Clearance or be eligible to obtain it . A leading global consultancy is seeking experienced Senior Data Engineers to join a major data transformation programme. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer with strong Quantexa expertise to deliver enterprise-scale solutions across complex data environments, working on high-impact projects for well-known organisations. As a Senior Data Engineer , you'll play a key role in designing and implementing Quantexa solutions, developing scalable data pipelines, and collaborating with architects, technical leads, and client stakeholders to deliver robust, production-ready platforms. Responsibilities Design, build, and optimise Quantexa data ingestion pipelines using Scala, Spark, and Databricks Configure Quantexa components including Entity Resolution, Scoring, 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. You 'll be working closely with BI and engineering teams, owning dbt models end-to-end and helping improve data quality, performance, and overall usability. What you 'll be doing: Building and maintaining dbt models for analytics and reporting Developing well-structured data models (staging marts) Working with stakeholders to turn business requirements into scalable datasets Improving data quality, testing, and documentation...