Kalpa Group
Contract data engineer - Outside IR35 - Fintech
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Senior Data Engineer - Contract - Python/ Azure/ airflow/ TypeScript/ APIs
Outside IR35 | £550–£700/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.
Different funds and administrators report investment data differently, across different formats, structures, and reporting cadences. APIs vary considerably and often don't exist at all. The work is about turning that fragmented data into a clean, scalable, and reliable data layer.
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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
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Technology environment:
Core: TypeScript, Python, SQL, Azure
Data engineering: Azure Data Lake, Airflow, Delta, lakehouse architecture, streaming
Infrastructure: AKS, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Docker
AI: LLM workflows, document intelligence, vector databases, embeddings, and agentic processing
Wider stack: React, Node.js, GraphQL
We're looking for strong, hands-on Data Engineers who are comfortable solving messy, real-world data problems in production.
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