Data Engineer – Azure / Databricks / Remote

Data Engineer – Azure / Databricks / 3-month contract / Remote

Data Engineer / Data Engineering / Azure / Databricks / Ingestion / Pipelines / API / Azure API Management (APIM) / Python / 3-month contract / Outside IR35 / Fully remote / £400 – 500 per day.

One of our leading clients is looking to recruit a Data Engineer.

Location – Remote / home based / WFH

Duration – Initial 3 month

Day Rate – £400-500 per day Outside IR35

Role / Responsibilities:

• Define and build a data lake architecture on Azure (ADLS + Databricks)
• Layered data model (bronze / silver / gold) for ingestion, processing, and reporting
• Develop ingestion patterns from API sources (batch and streaming)
• Establish data governance, metadata, and access controls
• Define storage structures, naming conventions, and schema design
• Develop API connectors and ingestion pipelines using Python
• Implement integration services feeding into the Databricks environment
• Build data transformation logic using PySpark / Python (data cleansing, standardisation, validation)
• Configure monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Execute unit and integration testing across pipelines

Core Skills:

• Azure
• Databricks
• Python

Desirable:

• Any exposure to Financial Services, Insurance or Bank/Banking would be beneficial but not essential