Senior Data Engineer

Location

England

Salary

Negotiable

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Contract Senior Data Engineer

Location: UK-based | Contract: 12 months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract to build and automate scalable data pipelines. The role will focus on developing secure, robust and efficient data infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enabling high-quality, analysis-ready datasets and machine learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Design secure cloud-based (GCP) data storage, transfer, transformation and quality control processes for multi-terabyte datasets.
• Develop automated workflows for metadata harmonisation, data validation, de-identification and image quality checks.
• Link imaging artefacts, including segmentations and annotations, to source data and deliver analysis-ready datasets.
• Develop production-grade Python solutions, supported by testing, CI/CD, monitoring and documentation.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, software engineers and imaging specialists to optimise datasets for scientific and AI/ML applications.
• Apply AI/ML techniques to automate anomaly detection, identify data inconsistencies and improve ingestion triage.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong Python data engineering skills and significant SQL experience, including schema design.
• Experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines using orchestration frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale cloud object storage, such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps and agile software development practices.
• Essential to have ONE of the following:

1. A PhD in a computational discipline
2. MSc in a computational discipline plus two years' imaging data experience
3. Or, at least two years' hands-on medical imaging data experience.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.

Apply Job reference 130955_1794396152 Date posted 11 November 2026 Sector IT International

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