hedgehog lab
Data Platform Engineer (Contract)
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This is the build-the-plumbing role.
You'll stand up and run the data platform that everyone else builds on, for a large regulated organisation modernising its data estate.
What You'll Do
- Build and operate the Snowflake platform on AWS, running on OpenShift.
- Own CI/CD for data: deployment pipelines, environments, and the tooling that lets data engineers ship safely.
- Treat infrastructure as code and keep the platform reliable, observable, and secure.
- Partner with the architect and data engineers to turn design into working platform.
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- Strong Snowflake platform experience, not just querying it.
- Solid AWS and container experience, ideally OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Real CI/CD experience applied to data workloads.
- An infrastructure-as-code mindset and a habit of automating the boring parts.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.
Bonus points for experience in a regulated or financial services setting.
About Hedgehog Lab
We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.
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- We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.
The Details
- Contract, outside IR35.
- 3 to 6 months, with strong potential to extend.
- Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.
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