14 senior data engineer jobs found in Reading

Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake & dbt) A London-based insurer is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help design, build, and scale its modern data platform. You'll play a key role in transforming raw data into reliable, well-structured datasets that power analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the business. Key Responsibilities of the Senior Data Engineer: Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT workflows Build and optimize data models using dbt to support analytics and business intelligence Manage and enhance our Snowflake data warehouse environment Ensure data quality, integrity, and performance across pipelines Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to understand data needs Implement testing, monitoring, and documentation for data systems Contribute to data architecture decisions and best practices Essential skills of the Senior Data Engineer: Strong experience with Snowflake (data...

Senior Data Engineer/Data Platform Engineer (Databricks) Contract | Outside IR35 Remote (UK) £550-£650 per day (DOE) 6 months We're partnering with a forward-thinking Data & AI consultancy that is helping to scale a Databricks Lakehouse platform. They are looking for a Senior Data Engineer/Data Platform Engineer who can operate across both Data Engineering & Platform Engineering. This is an end-to-end hands-on role. What You'll Be Doing: Designing and building end-to-end data pipelines using Databricks (PySpark/SQL/Delta Lake) Developing and managing robust, scalable Lakehouse architectures Implementing Delta Live Tables (DLT) for reliable, testable, production-grade pipelines Optimising performance using: Working with Unity Catalog to implement Centralised governance Leveraging Databricks Workflows/Jobs for orchestration Building CI/CD pipelines for data & platform deployments (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps etc.) Enabling Real Time and...

Principal Data Modeller | Credit / Financial Data Contract London | Hybrid / flexible working £600 p/d Outside of IR35 | 6 Months Rolling Contract This role requires a senior data modeller to take ownership of a complex financial data domain within a global data and analytics environment focused on defining and stabilising a core credit data model used across multiple products and consumers. You’ll be expected to operate independently, make modelling decisions with incomplete information, and leave behind a clear, buildable structure for engineering teams. This is a hands-on modelling authority position! THE ROLE: Own the conceptual → logical → physical data model for a core credit domain Define and refine key entities such as issuer, instrument, rating, event, and time/history Work across fragmented and under-documented data sources to establish clean, canonical definitions Produce source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and lineage...

Title: AI & ML Senior Engineer Role Rate: Up to £600 Per Day (Outside IR35) Contract length: 3 months (Initially) Start date: ASAP Our Client, a rapidly expanding international beauty brand celebrated for innovation and excellence, is seeking a skilled Lead AI & ML Engineer to join their forward-thinking team. Operating across numerous markets worldwide, this company offers a vibrant, collaborative culture that rewards creativity, technical mastery, and strategic thinking. Employees benefit from a stimulating work environment, ongoing development opportunities, and the chance to work at the forefront of AI technology within the beauty industry. Role Overview: As a Lead AI & ML Engineer, you will be instrumental in advancing AI and machine learning capabilities across the organisation. This pivotal role is designed for an ambitious professional eager to influence company-wide strategy, manage cutting-edge projects, and lead a talented team. Your...

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist/AI Innovation Lead to help shape and deliver data science and machine learning innovation within a critical government workstream. This role will play a key part in driving 2-3 week innovation sprints , leading the development of proof-of-concepts that surface actionable insight to Home Office Tableau users . The successful candidate will combine strong hands-on technical depth with the ability to frame problems, shape experiments, guide delivery, and influence how innovative data science capability is applied in practice. The focus is on rapidly testing high-value opportunities across areas such as LLM-driven summarisation, machine learning for data quality, anomaly detection, and statistical modelling , while working closely with stakeholders, engineers and analysts in a cloud-first environment. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and execution of data science, AI and ML innovation sprints , translating ambiguous problems into...

AI Engineer - LLM & Agentic Systems London - Hybrid. Circa £500 – £675 per day (and negotiable DOE) Contract (Outside IR35) Mid-level, Senior & Lead. 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...

🚀 Building a Senior AI Engineering Team (LLM + Distributed Systems) Global Investment Bank | Capital Markets Platform 📍 London (1–2 days onsite) 💰 £700–£1,200/day (Outside IR35) Contract to permanent available 📅 12-month contracts The Mandate We are building a production-grade AI platform inside a global investment bank. This is not a research team or a chatbot project. This is engineering-heavy , focused on integrating LLM systems into large-scale, distributed environments used by trading and quant teams. We are hiring across multiple levels: Lead Engineer (Agentic / RAG focus) Architect (end-to-end platform design- Agentic / RAG focus) Senior Engineers (x3) Agentic / RAG focus Potential Director-level hire to oversee the function What This Role Requires (Read Before Applying) You must have: Experience building distributed systems at scale Strong background in backend or data engineering Proven experience working on...

Product Owner | FinTech Payments – Product Owner | Up to £700 per day (Outside IR35) We’re looking for a Product Owner with experience within FinTech, Payments or the banking sector who will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the product, ensuring it delivers value to customers and the business. Reporting to the VP of Product and work closely with engineers, designers, analytics, marketing, and operations, building and deploying the technology that powers the future of consumer lending. Key Responsibilities Define and deliver the product vision and roadmap Collaborate cross-functionally to design and ship impactful, scalable solutions. Use data and experimentation to measure success and drive continuous improvement. Communicate a clear, inspiring product narrative that aligns teams and stakeholders. 💰 Paying up to £700 per day (Outside IR35) 🏢 2-3 days per week on-site in London What We’re Looking For Proven experience as a Product Owner...

AI ENGINEER | £550 - £650 We're working with a leading innovator in the Higher Education sector on this exciting opportunity. Are you ready to build the future of academic technology? We are looking for a high-calibre AI Engineer to lead the charge in developing transformative LLM-based solutions and conversational agents within a dynamic, intellectual environment. This is a chance to leverage cutting-edge AWS infrastructure to revolutionise how students and faculty interact with information. The Role Design and develop sophisticated conversational agents and LLM-based assistants tailored for the education sector. Lead the creation of AI proof-of-concepts (POCs) using AWS Bedrock and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Implement robust prompt engineering strategies and fine-tune foundation models to ensure accuracy and relevance. Collaborate closely with non-technical stakeholders to co-create AI solutions that address real-world academic challenges. Ensure all...

Product Owner | FinTech Payments – Product Owner | Up to £700 per day (Outside IR35) We’re looking for a Product Owner with experience within FinTech, Payments or the banking sector who will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the product, ensuring it delivers value to customers and the business. Reporting to the VP of Product and work closely with engineers, designers, analytics, marketing, and operations, building and deploying the technology that powers the future of consumer lending. Key Responsibilities Define and deliver the product vision and roadmap Collaborate cross-functionally to design and ship impactful, scalable solutions. Use data and experimentation to measure success and drive continuous improvement. Communicate a clear, inspiring product narrative that aligns teams and stakeholders. 💰 Paying up to £700 per day (Outside IR35) 🏢 2-3 days per week on-site in London What We’re Looking For Proven experience as a Product Owner...

Data Architect (Contract) - Lakehouse, Azure, AWS. Rate - £700 per day. Status - Outside IR35. Duration - 6 Months (Initial). Locations - London, Manchester, or Leeds. Security Clearance - Must be SC Cleared or able to be cleared We have recently partnered with a leading consultancy seeking contract Data Architects for several migration projects from legacy platforms to modern cloud data platforms. We are hiring for senior-level Data Architects for high-profile public-sector projects. This is an opportunity to lead technical strategy for large-scale legacy-to-new migrations, moving from on-premises environments to modern cloud architectures. Platform & Technical Focus You will be responsible for designing and implementing architectures across diverse cloud-native stacks: AWS Ecosystem: Implementing solutions using Redshift Spectrum, S3, Glue, and EMR. Azure Ecosystem: Leading migrations and deliveries using Databricks and...

Salary: £550 - 600 per day Join an industry-leading gaming company where you'll take full technical ownership of cutting-edge systems while mentoring the next generation of engineers. We're working with an industry leading gaming client that are looking for a Node.js developer to join them for an initial 6-month contract. The role is outside IR35 and 100% remote from anywhere in Europe. The Role You'll take full technical ownership of their NextGen CMS and Master Data (MDM) systems. This person will need to be well versed with communicating and mentoring as it's a crucial part of the role. Key Responsibilities: Lead development across CMS and MDM systems Maintain and expand complex backend systems (not standard CMS) Mentor engineers and set engineering standards/patterns Drive architecture, integrations, and system scalability Work closely with stakeholders to deliver features and improvements Required Skills & Experience Node.js & TypeScript in...

Node.js Developer - Contract - £550-600/day We're working with an industry leading gaming client that are looking for a Node.js developer to join them for an initial 6-month contract. The role is outside IR35 and 100% remote from anywhere in Europe. The Role You'll take full technical ownership of their NextGen CMS and Master Data (MDM) systems. This person will need to be well versed with communicating and mentoring as it's a crucial part of the role. Key Responsibilities: Lead development across CMS and MDM systems Maintain and expand complex Back End systems (not standard CMS) Mentor engineers and set engineering standards/patterns Drive architecture, integrations, and system scalability Work closely with stakeholders to deliver features and improvements Required Skills & Experience Node.js & TypeScript in production systems AWS or other cloud at scale Experience owning large, complex Back End systems Proven mentorship or tech lead experience...

Senior Java Developer Location: London, London, United Kingdom Rate: £600 per day (Outside IR35) Work Model: Hybrid, 2 days on site (Central London) Contract type: Contract We are seeking a Senior Java Developer to join a modern engineering team building high-performance, cloud-native services. You will take ownership of Back End design and delivery, mentor engineers, and help elevate engineering standards. A key focus of this role is accelerating team capability with GitHub Copilot-we are looking for a genuine enthusiast who uses it daily, understands the newest features, and can coach others to use it safely and effectively. Key Responsibilities * Design, build, and optimise microservices and APIs using Java 21. * Drive best practice in code quality, testing, secure coding, and performance tuning. * Build and integrate with NoSQL data stores and event-driven components where appropriate. * Deliver cloud solutions on Azure and/or AWS, including CI/CD and...