Proactive Appointments
Data Engineer
Data Engineer at Proactive Appointments, based in Exeter, South West England, paying £400 - £450 per day. This is a contract role.
- Pay
- £400 - £450 per day
- Hours and contract
- Contract · On site
- Location
- Exeter, South West England
- Closing date
- Sector
- Data Analyst
18% below the typical rate for data analyst
Reference 57558264
About the role
Data Engineer
Contract - Outside IR35 | £400-£450 per day | 6 Weeks Inital Contract Length | Remote (Inital 2-3 days on-site to kick start the project)
Our client is looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong Microsoft Fabric, PySpark and Splink experience. You'll be responsible for developing data matching pipelines, cleansing and standardising customer data, tuning matching models and building accurate master customer records across multiple systems.
- Experience building and supporting data pipelines in a cloud data platform, ideally Microsoft Fabric.
- Strong Python, including pandas and PySpark.
- Strong SQL, including Spark SQL or T-SQL.
- Experience cleaning and standardising data
- Experience matching, deduplicating or reconciling records across systems, whether rule-based or probabilistic.
- Understanding of how to measure data quality and match accuracy, including false positives and missed matches.
- Good working knowledge of UK GDPR and handling personal data securely.
- Use of version control (Git) and writing readable, documented, tested code.
- Ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to non-technical colleagues.
Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.
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Reference: 57558264 · Posted 38 minutes ago · Closes 23 Dec 2026 · Listed via Proactive Appointments
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