Senior Data Engineer

Robert Half have partnered with a London-based pharmaceutical manufacturing organisation who are looking to engage a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in scaling and maturing their data function.

This is an initial 12-month contract, playing a key role in stabilising and improving a currently fragmented data architecture while introducing best-practice engineering and delivery standards. The role requires 1 day per week onsite in London.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of a clear, structured data engineering framework
• Build, enhance, and maintain data pipelines within Snowflake
• Develop transformations and data models using DBT
• Orchestrate workflows using Apache Airflow
• Write clean, modular Python code for data engineering solutions
• Improve pipeline reliability, performance, and observability
• Introduce and embed CI/CD, testing, and deployment best practices (Azure DevOps)
• Define and implement clear data domains and schemas
• Address ongoing ETL failures and long-running jobs
• Work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment
• Contribute to roadmap definition and future platform evolution (including potential Databricks adoption)

• Strong hands-on experience as a Data Engineer at Senior or Lead level
• Extensive experience with Snowflake as a core data platform
• Advanced SQL with strong business logic and modelling capability
• Experience with DBT, Airflow, and Python
• Experience building modular, scalable solutions within Snowflake
• CI/CD pipeline experience, ideally using Azure DevOps
• Exposure to Docker and modern software engineering practices
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles and engineering best practices
• Background in software engineering (rather than purely analytics-focused roles)
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments
• Databricks experience or exposure desirable

Contract:

• Initial 12-month contract
• London-based, 1 day per week onsite
• Competitive day rate

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