Contract Data Engineer

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions
Hertfordshire
Today
£400 – £500 pd

Salary

£400 – £500 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Location
Remote
Posted
13 Nov 2026 (Today)
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Contract Data Engineer

Remote (Occasional travel to Letchworth)

3 Month Contract + Possible Extensions

£400 - £500 per day

This Contract Data Engineer role joins a well-established UK group, with several businesses under one roof, partway through building its Azure data platform.

You'll work alongside a small team of data engineers and own work end to end: talking to stakeholders, designing models, building and testing pipelines in Python and PySpark, and supporting BI. It's remote, and the platform is growing from one business to the whole group, so there's real work to get stuck into from day one.

What You'll Be Doing

Gathering requirements with data, product and senior stakeholders, and helping them with data-related technical issues

Designing conceptual, logical and physical data models as the platform expands

Building metadata-driven pipelines across Azure Synapse, Data Factory and PostgreSQL using Python and PySpark

Migrating data from legacy reporting solutions onto the platform while protecting data integrity

Releasing code through Azure DevOps and Git, and keeping documentation and data mapping up to date

Monitoring and tuning data loads, supporting BI users, and joining an out-of-hours rota for business-critical issuesWhat You'll Bring

Hands-on experience as a Data Engineer, building and maintaining data pipelines

Strong Python and PySpark skills

Experience with Azure data services such as Synapse, Databricks or Data Factory

Good SQL and data modelling skills

Confidence working with stakeholders to turn business needs into data solutionsDesirable: Microsoft Fabric, Tableau administration, Power BI, master data management (MDM), CI/CD with Azure DevOps

Apply today with your CV for this Contract Data Engineer role and we'll be in touch.

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Azure Data Engineer, Contract Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, ETL Developer, Data Platform Engineer, BI Developer

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn't right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd acts as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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