Data Engineer (Banking Experience)

Job Title: Contract Data Engineer (Banking Experience Required)

Location: London (Hybrid)

Day Rate: £550–£600 per day (Outside IR35 – subject to assessment)

Contract Length: 6 months initial (extensions likely)

Overview

Chapman Tate are looking for an experienced Contract Data Engineer with a strong background in banking or financial services to support a range of high-priority data initiatives. You will play a key role in delivering scalable data solutions, enabling regulatory reporting, and improving data architecture across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes
• Integrate and transform large volumes of financial data from multiple sources
• Work closely with stakeholders across technology, risk, and business teams
• Ensure high standards of data quality, governance, and compliance
• Contribute to data platform enhancements and cloud migration projects
• Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues in a fast-paced environment

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven track record as a Data Engineer within banking or financial services (essential)
• Strong SQL and Python (or equivalent) development skills
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery)
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Solid understanding of data modelling, warehousing, and pipeline design
• Experience supporting regulatory or risk-related data workflows

Desirable Experience

• Exposure to real-time/streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience in large-scale data transformation or migration programmes
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DataOps, or DevOps practices

If you’re a contract Data Engineer with banking experience available in the next two weeks, please apply with your latest CV.