Oliver James
Senior Data Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer - Databricks | Hybrid London | £550/day Outside IR35 | 12 Months
A well-established transport/travel sector business is expanding its Data & Middleware function as part of a major analytics transformation, and is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build out its data platform and data products.
You'll join a growing team modernising a legacy estate onto a modern Event Sourcing Architecture, producing high-quality data for analytics via a flexible, platform-engineering-led approach. This is a genuine build role - shaping the technical direction of the platform, not just maintaining what's there.
The role:
- Design, build and operate high-quality data pipelines end-to-end
- Lead on data modelling, working closely with business analysts and engineers to structure data for clarity, integrity and efficiency
- Be involved across the full project lifecycle - planning through to delivery and run
- Maintain a strong security and data-protection focus throughout
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What you'll need:
- 5+ years' progressive data engineering experience
- Strong Databricks and Spark expertise - platform internals, performance, DAB, Delta Lake, declarative pipelines
- Advanced Python, with solid software/DevOps practice (version control, unit testing, pipelines-as-code, CI/CD)
- Excellent data modelling skills, comfortable with tradeoffs across technical and organisational lines (Conway's Law)
- Advanced SQL, with experience querying data lakes/lakehouses
- Experience ingesting data via APIs, database connections or other methods
- Strong Agile delivery experience in a self-organising team
- Clear, persuasive communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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Nice to have: platform engineering exposure, event sourcing/data modelling experience, ML/AI operationalisation on data platforms, PostgreSQL, dbt.
Details:
- Hybrid, 2-3 days/week in London.
- 12-month contract, £550/day outside IR35.
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