159 contract data engineer jobs found

🚀 Contract Data Engineer | Outside IR35 | London (Hybrid, 3+ Days On-Site) We’re seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join a high-profile team delivering large-scale tax projects . This is a contract role (Outside IR35) based in London, requiring on-site presence at least 3 days per week . What you’ll do: Design, build, and optimise data pipelines and ETL processes for complex, high-volume data sets. Collaborate closely with Data Modellers, Analysts, and Tax Specialists to ensure data integrity and usability . Support large-scale tax initiatives , enabling accurate reporting and analysis. Implement best practices for data governance, quality, and security . We’re looking for someone with: Proven experience as a Data Engineer working with relational and non-relational databases. Hands-on experience with ETL frameworks, data warehousing, and cloud platforms (SQL, Scala, PySpark). Exposure to large-scale tax or financial...

Contract Senior Data Engineer - £500 - £600 per day - Outside IR35 - Python/Snowflake/AWS Role: Contract Senior Data Engineer Rate: £500 - £600 per day Determination: Outside IR35 Interview Process: 2x Call Technology: SQL/Python/DBT/AWS/Snowflake/Airflow In office requirement: 1 day per week Duration: 6 months Burns Sheehan have been supporting the build of a new team and we are adding to this with another Contract Senior Data Engineer. As a Contract Senior Data Engineer, you will support on core Data Engineering capabilities as well as modernising the Data stack and supporting a migration. Working alongside their Director of Data & Principal Data Engineer, you will be a key component. If this Contract Data Engineer sounds like you, please apply now for immediate consideration. Contract Senior Data Engineer - £500 - £600 per day - Outside IR35 - Python/Snowflake/AWS

Job Title: Data Engineer (HealthTech) Location: Manchester (Hybrid/Remote options available) Day Rate: £500 - £550 per day (Outside IR35) Contract Length: 6 months initial (extensions likely) Overview Chapman Tate Associates are seeking an experienced Contract Data Engineer to join an innovative HealthTech organisation delivering data-driven solutions that improve patient outcomes and healthcare services. This is an exciting opportunity to work on meaningful projects, building scalable data platforms that support clinical insights, product development, and operational efficiency. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes Integrate data from a variety of sources including clinical systems, APIs, and third-party providers Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver high-quality datasets Ensure data quality, security, and compliance with healthcare...

Job Title: Contract Data Engineer (Banking Experience Required) Location: London (Hybrid) Day Rate: £550 - £600 per day (Outside IR35 - subject to assessment) Contract Length: 6 months initial (extensions likely) Overview Chapman Tate are looking for an experienced Contract Data Engineer with a strong background in banking or financial services to support a range of high-priority data initiatives. You will play a key role in delivering scalable data solutions, enabling regulatory reporting, and improving data architecture across the organisation. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and optimise scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes Integrate and transform large volumes of financial data from multiple sources Work closely with stakeholders across technology, risk, and business teams Ensure high standards of data quality, governance, and compliance Contribute to data platform enhancements and cloud migration...

Contract Data Engineer - Snowflake/DBT/Python/SQL Healthcare/Pharma Industry £550-£600 per day - Outside IR35 London (Hybrid - 2 days onsite) 12 months + extension likely We're supporting a leading organisation building out a modern, cloud-native data platform and looking for multiple Senior Data Engineer with deep Snowflake expertise to join on a long-term contract click apply for full job details

Principal AI / Data Engineer (Contract): Length:  3 months initally (extension is likely)  Start Date:  ASAP  Location:  London, Hybrid (1 day per week)  Pay Rate / Determination: £525-575 p/d | Outside IR35  About:  Opus is supporting a UK-based digital consultancy partnering with organisations to design, build and scale high‑impact digital and AI‑driven products, with a strong people‑first culture. The role:  A hands‑on Principal AI / Data Engineer contract to assess, shape and deliver improvements to a live AI platform across two critical workstreams. You'll be responsible for: Assessing the current AI and data platform and define clear, actionable improvements Lead on delivery across two workstreams, aligning product, data and engineering Improving the natural language data exploration platform, focusing on trust and semantic consistency Designing and implementing scalable, multi‑source data pipelines and architecture About you: Strong experience with...

12 months Bath - x3 days onsite £550 Outside ir35 Role Overview Active DV clearance (SC Considered) required We are seeking an experienced DV (SC Considered) Cleared Data Engineer to support a high‑profile, mission‑critical programme within a secure government environment. The role will focus on designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines and platforms that support advanced analytics, intelligence, and operational decision‑making. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) within secure environments Develop and optimise ETL / ELT processes for high‑volume, structured and semi‑structured datasets Work with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into technical data solutions Ensure data platforms meet security, accreditation, and information assurance standards Support data quality, lineage, monitoring, and performance optimisation Contribute to data architecture and platform...

Data Engineer 12 months Bath - x3 days onsite £550 Outside ir35 Active DV clearance (SC Considered) required Role Overview We are seeking an experienced DV (SC Considered) Cleared Data Engineer to support a high-profile, mission-critical programme within a secure government environment. The role will focus on designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines and platforms that support advanced analytics, intelligence, and operational decision-making. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) within secure environments Develop and optimise ETL / ELT processes for high-volume, structured and semi-structured datasets Work with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into technical data solutions Ensure data platforms meet security, accreditation, and information assurance standards Support data quality, lineage, monitoring, and performance optimisation Contribute to data...

Principal AI/Data Engineer (Contract): Length: 3 months initially (extension is likely) Start Date: ASAP Location: London, Hybrid (1 day per week) Pay Rate/Determination: £525-575 p/d | Outside IR35 About: Opus is supporting a UK-based digital consultancy partnering with organisations to design, build and scale high impact digital and AI driven products, with a strong people first culture. The role: A hands on Principal AI/Data Engineer contract to assess, shape and deliver improvements to a live AI platform across two critical workstreams. You'll be responsible for: Assessing the current AI and data platform and define clear, actionable improvements Lead on delivery across two workstreams, aligning product, data and engineering Improving the natural language data exploration platform, focusing on trust and semantic consistency Designing and implementing scalable, multi source data pipelines and architecture About you: Strong experience with...

Data Migration Analyst / Engineer Contract | 5 Months | £400- £450/day | Outside IR35 | Fully Remote (Occasional London Meetings) We are looking for an experienced Data Migration Analyst / Engineer to support the rebuild of a data warehouse for a wealth management firm undergoing a complex system and data migration programme. Working alongside the Lead Data Engineer and in parallel with a separate application migration team, this role is focused on ensuring the newly built data warehouse faithfully reproduces existing business outputs through robust source-to-target mapping, migration validation, and transformation analysis. This is primarily a lift-and-shift migration , not a greenfield redesign, and requires someone who can operate independently, identify gaps, and translate complex legacy logic into a modern data warehouse environment. Key Responsibilities Take ownership of data migration and source-to-target mapping activities...

Principal AI / Data Engineer (Contract): Length: 3 months initally (extension is likely) Start Date: ASAP Location: London, Hybrid (1 day per week) Pay Rate / Determination: £525-575 p/d | Outside IR35 About: Opus is supporting a UK-based digital consultancy partnering with organisations to design, build and scale high-impact digital and AI-driven products, with a strong people-first culture. The role: A hands-on Principal AI / Data Engineer contract to assess, shape and deliver improvements to a live AI platform across two critical workstreams. You 'll be responsible for: Assessing the current AI and data platform and define clear, actionable improvements Lead on delivery across two workstreams, aligning product, data and engineering Improving the natural language data exploration platform, focusing on trust and semantic consistency Designing and implementing scalable, multi-source data pipelines and architecture...

Senior Data Engineer | Financial Services | Greater Manchester | Outside IR35 Immediate requirement for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a financial services organisation in Manchester on a contract basis, working on a modern Snowflake data platform. You will play a key role in delivering high quality data engineering solutions, supporting critical data initiatives and helping scale the organisation's cloud data capability. Key focus: Designing and building scalable data pipelines within Snowflake Optimising data models and warehouse performance Working closely with stakeholders to deliver data solutions Supporting ongoing data platform enhancements and initiatives Ensuring data quality, governance and best practices We are looking for: Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer Strong hands on Snowflake experience Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP Strong SQL and data modelling skills Experience within financial services is...

Role: Data Migration Engineer Duration : 6 months initial contract IR35 Status : Outside IR35 location : 2-3 days in Bath , rest if working from home Clearance needed : SC Level The role is for a Data Migration Engineer to work within an Application Management team. The work supports a new healthcare platform. The objectives and outputs from the role include the following: The role is to provide Data Engineering support for InterSystems HealthShare (HFS) components including the EMPI (enterprise master patient index), HPD (healthcare provider directory), Portal and Data Quality reports, and any other related project components added during this period. * Assist with the implementation of the data migration pipeline for a Health Record based on InterSystems IRIS. This will include design, development, testing, and monitoring. * Configuration, deployment, and testing of the supporting infrastructure and environments required for data migration, including populating and making...

AWS Data Engineer - Snowflake Cortex London (Hybrid)  -  £550/day  -  Outside IR35 | Retail 6‑month contract (extendable) working on a cutting‑edge Snowflake Cortex / GenAI data platform for a major retail organisation. What you’ll be doing: Building data pipelines on AWS Developing high‑performance Snowflake data models Delivering Snowflake Cortex AI/LLM use cases Working with large‑scale retail data (sales, customer, inventory) You’ll need: Strong AWS Data Engineering background Hands‑on Snowflake experience Exposure to Snowflake Cortex / GenAI SQL + Python **ASAP start, please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus for more detail.

AWS Data Engineer - Snowflake Cortex London (Hybrid) - £550/day - Outside IR35 | Retail 6 month contract (extendable) working on a cutting edge Snowflake Cortex/GenAI data platform for a major retail organisation.  What you'll be doing: Building data pipelines on AWS Developing high performance Snowflake data models Delivering Snowflake Cortex AI/LLM use cases Working with large scale retail data (sales, customer, inventory) You'll need: Strong AWS Data Engineering background Hands on Snowflake experience Exposure to Snowflake Cortex/GenAI SQL + Python *ASAP start, please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus for more detail.

AWS Data Engineer - Snowflake Cortex London (Hybrid) - £550/day - Outside IR35 | Retail 6-month contract (extendable) working on a cutting-edge Snowflake Cortex / GenAI data platform for a major retail organisation. What you'll be doing: Building data pipelines on AWS Developing high-performance Snowflake data models Delivering Snowflake Cortex AI/LLM use cases Working with large-scale retail data (sales, customer, inventory) You'll need: Strong AWS Data Engineering background Hands-on Snowflake experience Exposure to Snowflake Cortex / GenAI SQL + Python **ASAP start, please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus for more detail.

🚀 We’re Hiring: GCP Data Engineer (Contract Role) 📍 Location: London & Chester, UK (Hybrid – 2-3 days onsite) 💼 Client: Leading Bank / Financial Services (Details shared during interview) 📅 Duration: 6 Months (Extendable) | Outside IR35 ⏳ Notice Period: Immediate to 1 Month 🔎 About the Role We are looking for a Senior GCP Data Engineer to design and build scalable, high-performance data platforms on Google Cloud. This role involves working with large-scale datasets and developing both batch and real-time data pipelines for enterprise applications. 💡 Key Responsibilities ✔️ Design & build batch and real-time data pipelines on GCP ✔️ Work with BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Spanner ✔️ Develop real-time streaming solutions using Kafka / Apache Beam ✔️ Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform ✔️ Deploy workloads on Kubernetes (GKE) ✔️ Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / Spinnaker) ✔️ Collaborate on data modeling and...

Senior Data Engineer | Financial Services | Greater Manchester | Outside IR35 Immediate requirement for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a financial services organisation in Manchester on a contract basis, working on a modern Snowflake data platform. You will play a key role in delivering high quality data engineering solutions, supporting critical data initiatives and helping scale the organisation's cloud data capability. Key focus: Designing and building scalable data pipelines within Snowflake Optimising data models and warehouse performance Working closely with stakeholders to deliver data solutions Supporting ongoing data platform enhancements and initiatives Ensuring data quality, governance and best practices We are looking for: Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer Strong hands on Snowflake experience Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP Strong SQL and data modelling skills Experience within financial services is...

Data Engineer - SC Cleared Outside IR35 £525/day 5-Month Contract We are currently seeking a highly capable Data Engineer to join a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment working on large-scale, data-driven solutions. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex data challenges within a modern cloud ecosystem, contributing to the design, build, and optimisation of robust data platfor click apply for full job details

We are working with a leading London-based organisation that is building a modern, enterprise-wide data platform using Microsoft Fabric and is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in its development. This is a hands-on role within a greenfield Fabric environment, supporting critical business areas including finance, operations, and strategic decision-making. The successful candidate will design and deliver scalable data solutions across ingestion, modelling, and optimisation, working closely with cross-functional teams to help shape a robust, future-ready data platform. This role requires the Senior Data Engineer to be onsite at the client's London offices three days per week. Skills/Responsibilities Experience of designing and building scalable, production-grade data pipelines and Lakehouse/Warehouse solutions using Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Dataflows Gen2, Pipelines, Notebooks) Experience of implementing advanced Fabric capabilities such as Shortcuts,...