Senior Data Engineer

Contract Data Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Contract: 6 months+ (likely extension)

IR35: Outside

Start: ASAP

Overview

Data Engineer required to support a finance transformation programme within a digital financial services business. Focus on modernising financial data systems and replacing manual processes with scalable, cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with finance stakeholders
• Design and deliver data integrations and data products
• Bring General Ledger into the central reporting repository
• Integrate a Treasury Management System into central data and automate accounting postings
• Build curated finance data marts for self-service reporting
• Enable near real-time reporting capability
• Operate as a proactive, autonomous contributor within a Scrum team
• Support experimentation with agentic AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) for discovery and requirement definition

Requirements

Must-Have:

• Strong finance domain knowledge
• Extensive AWS data engineering experience
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms
• Python
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience with D365 or similar ERP systems
• Experience using Claude / agentic AI in delivery