Data Engineer (Snowflake) - £500 per day - Inside IR35 - Remote

My client, a FTSE250 organisation require a Snowflake Data Engineer to provide data engineering support for the Data Science and Consumer Insight team.

The contractor will be responsible for maintaining and optimising the existing Snowflake Lab environment, which ingests and transforms data from SAP BICC and other sources to support reporting and analytics.

Key deliverables:

- Managing and improving the existing data ingestion and transformation pipelines within Snowflake.

- Enhancing automation, reliability, and monitoring of daily update processes.

- Supporting and optimising Power BI data models that depend on the Snowflake Lab.

- Collaborating with the central data team to integrate newly available enterprise datasets into the Lab, ensuring efficient and controlled adoption.

- Supporting ad hoc data ingestion and preparation to meet the needs of analysts and data scientists, including custom datasets and one-off data requests.

- Contributing to the development of data handling procedures and best practices, helping to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability of the lab environment.

- Ownership and day-to-day management of the Commercial Insight's Snowflake environment and pipelines.

- Review of existing data structures and processes and design of a plan for improvements where appropriate.

- Documented processes for all major data ingestion and transformation jobs, including failure handling and recovery procedures.

- Automated, monitored, and version-controlled update pipelines (where feasible).

- Refactored or enhanced Power BI semantic models to improve performance and usability.

- Integration of centrally provided datasets into the Snowflake Lab, delivered in coordination with the central data team

This is a great opportunity to work for a leading business, the role is remote based and occasional travel to office from time-to-time. The role is inside IR35 and a 6 month contract to start with. Apply for immediate response.