Data Engineer

Data Engineer (Contract) – Edinburgh Hybrid (2–3 days onsite) £500/day (Inside IR35) | 6-month initial engagement   Overview We’re seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a new team on a greenfield project to set up a Snowflake environment from scratch. This is with a historic financial services client based in Central Edinburgh.   Key Responsibilities You will:

• Design, build, test, deploy and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products from source systems through to analytics and reporting layers
• Provide technical leadership across complex or cross-functional delivery work
• Own and support key data pipelines, including incident resolution, root cause analysis and controlled releases
• Deliver solutions aligned to agreed CI/CD practices, engineering standards and architectural principles
• Implement and maintain data quality checks, monitoring, alerting and automation
• Ensure data pipelines meet requirements for security, lineage, documentation, naming conventions and governance standards
• Translate business and analytical requirements into robust technical designs
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Data, Analytics, Governance and Engineering functions
• Contribute to continuous improvement, reusable patterns and engineering best practice adoption
• Provide mentoring and guidance to other engineers where required

Core Technology Stack (Must Have Front and Centre)

• Snowflake – primary cloud data platform for warehousing and analytics
• Microsoft Azure – cloud infrastructure and data services
• dbt (Data Build Tool) – transformation layer and analytics engineering
• Microsoft Fabric – pipeline orchestration and integrated data platform services

Desirable Skills

• Alteryx – beneficial for workflow automation and data blending use cases
• Oracle Database – advantageous for legacy or enterprise source system integration

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience in data engineering within modern cloud environments
• Ideally, experience in setting up Snowflake environments in Greenfield projects
• Proven delivery of scalable, production-grade data pipelines
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps principles and automated testing in data environments
• Experience working with complex source systems and transforming data into analytics-ready structures
• Confident working with stakeholders to define and deliver data requirements
• Strong focus on data quality, governance, observability and operational excellence

Working Arrangements

• Edinburgh-based hybrid working (2–3 days per week onsite)
• 6-month initial contract
• £500 per day (Inside IR35)

Why Apply? This is a great opportunity to work on modern data platforms using leading cloud technologies, shaping scalable data solutions that directly enable analytics, insight and business decision-making in a highly collaborative engineering environment.

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