Senzo Group
Senior Data Engineer | Contract | Outside IR35
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Senior Data Engineer (contract)
£550-700 / day | Outside IR35
3 month contract (potential to extend)
London Hybrid (1-2 days in the office) - maybe some flex here for the perfect applicant
This is an opportunity to join an early but well funded AI startup at an exciting point in its growth. Following a successful pilot and strong customer traction, the business is investing in its data platform as it prepares to scale.
You'll take ownership of a modern, cloud native data platform, building production grade pipelines and infrastructure that power analytics, product features and future AI capabilities.
This is a genuine greenfield opportunity where you'll have the autonomy to influence architecture, engineering standards and technical direction from day one.
The Role
- Design, build and maintain scalable end to end data pipelines from ingestion to analytics and consumption.
- Build robust ELT pipelines across APIs, SaaS platforms, databases and event driven workloads.
- Develop modern data models and transformation workflows that deliver trusted, analysis ready datasets. Using modern analytics engineering such as dbt.
- Build and deploy cloud native data infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
- Improve platform reliability, data quality, observability, security and performance.
- Work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver data that powers customer facing products, analytics and AI initiatives.
- Help establish engineering best practice while mentoring others where appropriate.
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Must Have
- 7+ years' commercial Data Engineering experience.
- Expert in Python and SQL.
- Hands on experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
- Strong AWS experience including services such as S3, Airflow, ECS/Fargate and Athena (Apache Iceberg).
- Data Warehouse with PostgreSQL experience.
- Experience applying modern DevOps practices, including Terraform, Docker, CI/CD and monitoring/logging.
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Why Join?
- Genuine greenfield engineering work.
- Small, highly capable team with significant technical ownership.
- Modern cloud native stack.
- Fast moving product environment where your work has immediate impact.
- Potential for the engagement to extend beyond the initial three months.
Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK and be able to start immediately.
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