
Data Engineer
Department:Data Engineer
Type:REMOTE
Region:UK
Location:United Kingdom
Experience:Mid-Senior level
Estimated Salary:£60,000 - £90,000
Skills:
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Job Description
Posted on: April 24, 2026
Data Engineer (contract/freelance)
- Join a high‑performing Data Engineering team building scalable, cloud‑native data platforms.
- Work on end‑to‑end data pipelines powering analytics, ML, and real‑time decisioning.
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Architects, and Product teams to deliver high‑value data solutions.
Remit
- Design, build, and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines across large‑scale datasets.
- Develop robust data models, schemas, and storage layers.
- Implement data quality, validation, and governance best practices.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
- Work with cross‑functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve pipeline performance and reliability.
Skills
- Strong experience with Python and/or Scala for data engineering.
- Hands‑on with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
- Proficient in SQL and distributed data processing (Spark, Databricks, EMR, Dataflow, Synapse, BigQuery, etc.).
- Experience with data warehousing (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Synapse).
- Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, dbt, Luigi).
- Strong understanding of data modelling, data architecture, and best‑practice engineering principles.
- Experience working in agile, product‑driven environments.
Good to have
- Exposure to streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
- Experience supporting machine learning pipelines.
- Knowledge of DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
For immediate consideration, please send me your latest CV
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