Data Engineer

Data Engineer | 6-Month Contract | London - Vauxhall (2 Days/Week Onsite) | £500–550/day Outside IR35

Join a high-impact data team powering one of the UK’s leading consumer finance platforms. This Data Engineer role is a 6-month contract offering hybrid flexibility in a collaborative environment focused on delivering data solutions that scale.

The company helps millions of users globally manage their credit and make smarter financial decisions, working closely with major financial institutions. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking, user-centric culture where technology drives meaningful outcomes.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll join the Data Platform squad to ensure the Databricks infrastructure is optimised, scalable, and ready to support a fast-moving data team.

• Maintain and enhance the Databricks platform for high performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Design and implement new data integrations, pipelines, and platform features.

• Collaborate with analysts, scientists, and engineers to meet evolving data needs.

• Optimise cost and performance across clusters, jobs, and queries.

• Apply Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD practices for deployment consistency.

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer in a cloud environment, AWS preferred.

• Hands-on with Databricks, SQL, Python, and data transformation tools like dbt.

• Confident with IaC tools such as Terraform and best practices in production-ready pipelines.

• Strong communicator and collaborator, with a problem-solving mindset.

• Able to work autonomously in a fast-paced, agile setting.