Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineer (Contract) – ClickHouse / Ingestion

Fully Remote (UK) 6 Months Initial Senior Data Engineer and Mid Level

Our client are growing their data platform and looking for two Data Engineers who can build and run high‐volume ingestion pipelines across a modern, high‐performance stack.

You’ll work end‐to‐end on ingestion, warehousing, lakehouse, orchestration, and platform reliability with an immediate focus on ClickHouse + Kafka at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing day to day -

• High‐throughput ingestion into ClickHouse
• Streaming pipelines with Kafka
• Extracting from BigQuery, Elasticsearch, and third‐party APIs
• Working across S3/GCS, Parquet, Iceberg, Kubernetes (EKS)
• Building reliable, observable, production‐ready pipelines
• Using AI‐assisted coding tools as part of your workflow

Must Have experience with -

• Strong Python + production pipeline experience
• Deep ClickHouse knowledge
• Kafka fundamentals (delivery semantics, backpressure, schema registry)
• API ingestion patterns (pagination, rate limits, retries)
• Operational mindset: observability, debugging, recovery

Bonus: TypeScript/Node, dbt, Iceberg, CDC, ML/LLM pipelines, media/ad‐tech experience.

Levels

Mid‐Level Engineer: Delivers scoped pipelines with light guidance

Senior Engineer: Owns subsystems, sets patterns, drives architecture