320 jobs
Databricks London
Hybrid technical and commercial role acting as post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products for the most complex strategic accounts. You own the technical account strategy and execution plan, driving use cases from win to production, coordinating Solutions Architects, Professional Services and support teams, and reporting on usage, adoption and customer health to a Technical GM.
Databricks United Kingdom
Expert-level technical leader owning the most complex enterprise data and AI engagements, driving consumption strategy and executive relationships for a Leeds-based retail customer. Requires deep Databricks platform expertise, Python/SQL coding, and architecture skills across lakehouse, streaming and AI/ML at scale, while mentoring junior architects.
GCS London £600 – £850 pd
Hands-on contract role building and optimising enterprise-scale data pipelines with Python, Databricks, PySpark and SQL, including Delta Lake and Lakehouse architectures. You will design ETL/ELT solutions, tune distributed workloads, implement data quality controls and mentor junior engineers within an Agile banking data function.
Hays Technology London £100,000 – £110,000 pa
Hands-on role building the backend services, APIs and data integrations behind a new AI layer for an investment management platform. Involves LLM application work such as agent workflows, tool use and RAG, plus security controls, automated tests and AI evaluations, monitoring accuracy, latency and cost in production. Works alongside a Frontend Engineer and product colleagues, releasing iteratively.
VIQU IT London £85,000 – £90,000 pa
Player-manager role leading the Data Engineering function, defining standards, tooling and team structure while personally delivering complex pipeline work. You'll manage and mentor data engineers, own data infrastructure, and build high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines across operational, analytical and AI layers using SQL, Python and cloud platforms. Also drives AI tooling adoption and CI/CD for data pipelines.
Interface Recruitment Leeds
Lead the design, build and optimisation of scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting analytics, reporting, AI and machine learning in a regulated asset manager. Sets data engineering standards, mentors engineers, and ensures solutions meet security, governance, quality and resilience requirements, working hybrid in Leeds.
Artis Recruitment Bristol £80,000 – £85,000 pa
Lead a team of data engineers while staying hands-on with complex data challenges, providing technical direction and coaching. Drive the migration and modernisation of legacy platforms into a Databricks lakehouse environment, building pipelines, models and curated datasets, and championing engineering best practice within Agile delivery.
EF Recruitment London £250 – £260 pd
Joins a global SaaS client's Customer Success Data Science team on a 10-month contract, building data pipelines, metric definitions and governance with engineering. Creates scalable dashboards, runs root-cause and A/B test analysis, and applies Gen AI tools to automate insight generation and anomaly detection. Hybrid role with three days a week in the London office.
Synapri London £460 – £470 pd
Hands-on role building and optimising scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Databricks, Python, SQL and Oracle, supporting migration of legacy data assets into modern cloud platforms for a large banking organisation. Delivered through a consultancy on a major data transformation and cloud modernisation programme, with work in a highly regulated environment covering data quality, performance and production support.
Vaerdi Recruitment Limited London £750 pd
Hands-on lead architecture role shaping data architecture for a major financial services technology programme. Involves designing scalable, distributed data solutions, developing complex data models, and applying Domain-Driven Design, with heavy use of NoSQL technologies, particularly Cassandra. Provides architectural direction while remaining technically hands-on, working closely with technical teams.
Socium Recruitment Manchester £90,000 – £100,000 pa
Owns the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap for an established online business, leading a team of ten through a migration from on-prem SQL to Azure. Sets engineering standards across data modelling, pipelines, governance and automated deployments, and makes the calls on tooling, budget and suppliers while reporting into the C-suite. Microsoft Fabric adoption and practical AI use are open questions the role holder will shape.
Palantir Technologies New York, United States US$145,000 – US$155,000 pa
Works deep inside the data processing infrastructure behind Palantir Foundry, covering query plan optimization, operator execution, and efficient data reads and writes. Extends open-source engines and table formats including Apache Spark, DataFusion, and Iceberg, taking changes through design, code review, testing, and release. Correctness, compatibility, and predictable performance are central to the work.
hireful West Yorkshire £80,000 – £90,000 pa
Owns the design and build of scalable data pipelines and data products on Databricks using PySpark, Spark SQL and Delta Lake, plus ETL/ELT optimisation and enterprise data architecture. Partners with Finance, Product, Sales, Marketing and Engineering to enable trusted self-service data, embeds governance and quality, and mentors a junior engineer in a small, high-impact team.
Forsyth Barnes United Kingdom £50,000 – £65,000 pa
Hands-on role designing, building and scaling an AWS-native data platform, migrating data from a large on-premise estate into the cloud. Involves building ingestion frameworks using CDC, event-driven and batch patterns, ETL/ELT with Python and SQL, plus data modelling, governance and observability. Also provides technical leadership and mentoring while remaining hands-on.
ClickHouse United Kingdom
Leads the team building and operating ClickHouse Managed Postgres, owning provisioning, high availability, backup and recovery, upgrades, observability, performance and security. Combines people leadership, technical direction and product thinking, partnering with Product, Design, Infrastructure and Security across a distributed organisation. Also involves hiring and coaching engineers and working directly with customers.
