58 lead data engineer jobs found

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 Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and release...

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...

Lead Data Engineer (Azure Synapse | Azure DevOps | CI/CD) Contract 6 months initial term, extension likely Up to c£500 per day outside IR35 Can be remote or hybrid as preferred - West London office We're looking for a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to help shape and deliver a modern Azure data platform, with a particular focus on Azure Synapse and engineering best practice. This role would suit someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, building robust and governed solutions, and acting as a technical lead across both engineering teams and business stakeholders. You'll be responsible for: Designing and developing enterprise-scale ETL/ELT pipelines and reusable data products Building and maintaining Azure Synapse solutions, including Serverless SQL, Synapse notebooks and Synapse pipelines Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and release processes using Azure DevOps Developing scalable data warehouse and lakehouse...

Lead SRE / Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract / Remote) Location: Bristol / London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £700 p/d Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer (Observability SME) to support the implementation and instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design standards across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Reliability & Performance: Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error...

Senior C# Engineer – .NET 8/9, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS – OUTSIDE IR35 £700–£800/day • 100% Remote • 11-month rolling contract Takeaway: Lead the architecture and build of a greenfield SaaS platform as a deeply senior, hands-on C# engineer, with heavy emphasis on deep .NET engineering , high-performance distributed systems , and real-world AWS serverless delivery . You’ll also have the opportunity to develop hands-on skills with Claude Code , one of the most advanced AI-assisted development tools in the industry. Role Overview: You’ll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Expect deep backend engineering, distributed system design, and high-quality serverless delivery, plus the chance to adopt modern AI-assisted development practices as part of your workflow. What You’ll Bring: Senior/Staff-level backend mastery in C# and .NET 8/9 , with the ability to architect and lead...

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...

Quality Assurance Engineer 6-month contract Remote Working (UK-based) Outside IR35 £350 to £375 per day Start - ASAP The Opportunity: We are supporting a confidential programme for a major central government project (Government Digital Services) and are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to join a multidisciplinary Agile delivery team working on the development of modern, cloud-based data platforms and user-facing digital services. This role is ideally suited to a QA professional with experience testing data-driven systems, validating end-to-end data pipelines and assuring the quality of applications that consume and present complex datasets. You'll work closely with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Developers and Business Analysts to ensure that data is processed accurately, integrations perform reliably and end users receive high-quality, trusted information. Experience with cloud-based data platforms, REST APIs and geospatial...

Lead SRE/Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract/Remote) Location: Bristol/London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £700 p/d Duration: 3-6 months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer (Observability SME) to support the implementation and instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design standards across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Reliability & Performance: Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to...

Lead SRE / Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract / Remote) Location: Bristol / London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £700 p/d Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer (Observability SME) to support the implementation and instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design standards across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Reliability...

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...

*Contract Fabric Data Engineer* Day Rate: £425pd OUTSIDE IR35 Location: Remote with occasional travel to Leeds Contract Length: 3 months initial (likely extension to 6) Start: ASAP WRK digital are proud to be partnering with a Leeds/London based company who are looking for a Contract Fabric Data Engineer for an initial 3 month period. This is a rare chance to own and shape a brand-new data solution from the ground up. We’re looking for a Data Engineer with strong SQL and Microsoft Fabric expertise to lead a pilot project. You’ll be stepping into a greenfield space, designing, building, and defining a data capability that doesn’t exist yet. What You’ll Be Doing Designing and building a new data platform in Microsoft Fabric Owning the end-to-end data model and architecture Working with 3rd party data Delivering a value-for-money framework aligned with regulatory requirements Acting as the go-to expert , clearly communicating progress and...

Lead Backend Software Engineer – Data Services Federated Data Services | Distributed Systems | Apache Spark | DataFusion | Python | Kubernetes Location: London (2 days per week onsite) Rate: £700–£800 per day (Outside IR35) Duration: Initial 6-month contract with likely extension Overview We're looking for an experienced Lead Backend Software Engineer to join a high-profile programme building secure, cloud-native data services that will support data-driven research and innovation at national scale. This is a founding engineering role, offering the opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering standards, and core data services from the ground up. Working closely with the Engineering Manager and a small team of senior engineers, you'll establish the technical foundations for a complex federated data platform operating within a highly regulated environment. We're looking for someone who enjoys building from first principles, thrives in ambiguity, and...

We are currently hiring a Senior Engineer (BMC Helix Architect) for an exciting client engagement. Role: Senior Engineer (BMC Helix Architect) Location: Andover UK (Hybrid – 2 days per week mandatory at the client site) Position: Contract (Outside IR35) Clearance: Active SC Clearance (Mandatory) Key Responsibilities Architect and deliver end-to-end BMC Helix ITSM solutions covering Incident, Problem, Change, Release, Asset, and Service Catalogue management. Lead migration from on-premises BMC Remedy to BMC Helix SaaS environments. Design and build integrations with third-party platforms via REST/SOAP APIs and BMC Helix iPaaS. Configure and maintain BMC Helix Discovery for CMDB population and CI relationship mapping. Implement SLAs/OLAs, automation rules, escalation policies, and approval workflows. Act as Level 3 escalation point; monitor platform health, manage upgrades and patches. Collaborate with stakeholders to align platform capabilities...

Lead Backend Software Engineer – Data Services Federated Data Services | Distributed Systems | Apache Spark | DataFusion | Python | Kubernetes Location: London (2 days per week onsite) Rate: £700–£800 per day (Outside IR35) Duration: Initial 6-month contract with likely extension Overview We're looking for an experienced Lead Backend Software Engineer to join a high-profile programme building secure, cloud-native data services that will support data-driven research and innovation at national scale. This is a founding engineering role, offering the opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering standards, and core data services from the ground up. Working closely with the Engineering Manager and a small team of senior engineers, you'll establish the technical foundations for a complex federated data platform operating within a highly regulated environment. We're looking for someone who enjoys building from first principles, thrives in ambiguity, and can balance strategic...

Senior C# Engineer (AI-Native & Agentic Engineering) .NET 8/9 • AWS Lambda/SQS • OUTSIDE IR35  £700–£800/day • 100% Remote (UK) • 11-months rolling If you’re a deeply senior C# engineer who wants to actually build something new, not maintain legacy, not refactor someone else’s mess, this is one of the few roles in the market worth stopping for. You’ll be the technical spearhead for a greenfield SaaS platform, reporting directly to the Director of Engineering and shaping everything from architecture to AI-native delivery patterns. This is high-autonomy, high-impact work for someone who thrives in ambiguity and loves solving hard problems at pace. Why this role stands out: You set the engineering bar, not follow it. You get to embed agentic AI workflows into real production systems. You own outcomes end-to-end, not just “tickets”. You influence product direction without layers of process or ceremony. What You’ll Bring:...

Lead Backend Software Engineer - Data Services Federated Data Services | Distributed Systems | Apache Spark | DataFusion | Python | Kubernetes Location: London (2 days per week onsite) Rate: £700-£800 per day (Outside IR35) Duration: Initial 6-month contract with likely extension Overview We're looking for an experienced Lead Backend Software Engineer to join a high-profile programme building secure, cloud-native data services that will support data-driven research and innovation at national scale. This is a founding engineering role, offering the opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering standards, and core data services from the ground up. Working closely with the Engineering Manager and a small team of senior engineers, you'll establish the technical foundations for a complex federated data platform operating within a highly regulated environment. We're looking for someone who enjoys building from first principles, thrives in ambiguity, and can balance...

Lead Backend Software Engineer - Data Services Federated Data Services | Distributed Systems | Apache Spark | DataFusion | Python | Kubernetes Location: London (2 days per week onsite) Rate: £700 - £800 per day (Outside IR35) Duration: Initial 6-month contract with likely extension Overview We 're looking for an experienced Lead Backend Software Engineer to join a high-profile programme building secure, cloud-native data services that will support data-driven research and innovation at national scale. This is a founding engineering role, offering the opportunity to shape the architecture, engineering standards, and core data services from the ground up. Working closely with the Engineering Manager and a small team of senior engineers, you 'll establish the technical foundations for a complex federated data platform operating within a highly regulated environment. We 're looking for someone who enjoys building from first principles, thrives in...

Senior C# Developer - .Net 9, AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge) - OUTSIDE IR35 .NET 8/9 • AWS Lambda/SQS • OUTSIDE IR35 £700–£800/day • 100% Remote (UK) • 11‑months rolling If you’re a deeply senior C# engineer who wants to actually build something new, not maintain legacy, not refactor someone else’s mess, this is one of the few roles in the market worth stopping for. You’ll be the technical spearhead for a greenfield SaaS platform, reporting directly to the Director of Engineering and shaping everything from architecture to AI‑native delivery patterns. This is high‑autonomy, high‑impact work for someone who thrives in ambiguity and loves solving hard problems at pace. Why this role stands out: You set the engineering bar, not follow it. You get to embed agentic AI workflows into real production systems. You own outcomes end‑to‑end, not just “tickets”. You influence product direction without layers of process or ceremony. What You’ll Bring:...

We are currently looking for an experience Principal Engineer to join us on a contract basis. This is a hybrid position and will require 3 days per week on client site in Central London. Requirements Role responsibilities:   Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Personalisation domain Design and deliver scalable systems supporting personalisation, search, recommendations, and ML-powered features Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver customer-centric solutions Lead and influence technical decision-making across multiple teams and platforms Mentor and support senior engineers, helping to raise the overall engineering capability Improve engineering quality, reliability, and productivity through best practices, tooling, and platform enhancemen   Who you are:   An experienced technical leader with a strong background in Java/Python and...