Data Engineering Jobs

McGregor Boyall · London · £750 – £850 pd

Senior architecture role on a large-scale modernisation programme across a Custody and Securities Services platform, covering Securities Settlements, Corporate Actions, Transaction Management, Tax Processing and Cash & FX. You act as technical authority within delivery teams, designing microservices and event-driven architectures with Kafka, REST APIs and cloud, leading governance, NFRs and technical debt management, and building PoCs including Generative AI.

Harvey Nash · London · £800 – £850 pd

Designs scalable, resilient solutions across custody and securities services domains including settlements, asset servicing, transaction management, tax and cash/FX processing. Works with engineering teams, technology leaders and business stakeholders on a major technology modernisation programme, covering solution architecture, event-driven design, data/cloud and architecture governance.

First Military Recruitment · United Kingdom

Leads the design and implementation of complex data flows, pipelines and integrations to support an enterprise AI buildout, setting data engineering best practices and ensuring data readiness and security. Bridges technical engineering partners and business leads, translating data risks into clear choices for stakeholders. Requires SC clearance and works remotely on a contract until 30/04/2027.

ISR Recruitment · United Kingdom · £475 – £525 pd

Hands-on engineering and architecture role designing and building an open-source, cloud-agnostic data transformation layer for a national data exchange platform. Day to day involves building Apache NiFi flows, developing RDF/SPARQL pipelines and supporting components in Python and Java, plus automated testing, monitoring and secure integrations. Distinct for combining reusable pipeline architecture with semantic data modelling for a central government client.

Real · United Kingdom · £600 – £700 pd

Lead data architecture across multiple transformation programmes at a university, producing architecture artefacts, standards and documentation. Design and assure data flows, integration patterns and system mappings, and support data governance frameworks and operating models. Involves facilitating workshops, presenting to Architecture Boards, and handing over to a permanent Data Architect.

TEKsystems · London · £300 – £370 pd

Documents and redesigns a complex, high-volume transactional platform for a large payments company, producing conceptual, logical and physical data models and defining data standards. Works closely with developers and engineers to implement OLTP and system-of-record database architecture, with a focus on relational technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQL Server.

Data Idols · London · £500 – £650 pd

Design, develop and optimise scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data warehousing solutions, improving platform performance, reliability and scalability. Work with Data and Analytics Engineers on ETL/ELT processes, data architecture and reusable data solutions, with GCP and BigQuery highly desirable alongside Python and SQL.

Fuel Recruitment · Farnborough · £550 – £600 pd

Build and optimise cloud-based data integration and analytics solutions for a defence-sector client, focusing on scalable ETL pipelines, data lakes and processing frameworks in AWS. Day-to-day work centres on AWS Glue jobs using PySpark and Python, Glue Data Catalog, crawlers, workflows and triggers, plus S3 data lake management and IAM security. Three roles, outside IR35, with three days a week onsite.

Bright Purple · Edinburgh · £500 – £550 pd

Defines and governs the end-to-end data architecture for a major COINS ERP transformation, owning complex data migration, mapping, cleansing and reconciliation. Establishes master data, stewardship, lineage and data quality controls, and assures vendor data models and migration designs through rehearsals, cutover and deployment.

Pontoon · Chester

Hands-on engineering role building and maintaining scalable data platforms for compliance assurance in a regulated enterprise. Owns the end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingesting source systems through streaming, processing and storage to automated reconciliation and data-quality controls. Developer-led, with Python, PySpark, Kafka and NiFi at its core.

Lorien · London

Owns data products end to end, from discovery and prototyping through launch and adoption, working with stakeholders to turn ambiguous business problems into measurable product objectives. Builds working proofs of concept using SQL, Python, Databricks, Power BI, AI tooling and low-code platforms, then partners with data engineers and architects to industrialise them. Requires commercial insurance or broking domain experience and familiarity with data mesh, data contracts and governance.

Cathcart Technology · Edinburgh · £500 – £525 pd

Owns the end-to-end data architecture for a major ERP transformation, leading migration design, governance, master data and reporting while challenging vendor designs. Works with senior tech leaders and implementation partners from build through to go-live, requiring deep ERP data migration and MDM expertise.

Opus Recruitment Solutions · London · £500 – £525 pd

Hands-on contract role migrating a large legacy ETL estate of several thousand Ab Initio batch jobs to a serverless AWS data platform. You'll define migration patterns, convert Ab Initio transformations into scalable PySpark, and deliver production-ready AWS Glue solutions, with heavy Spark performance tuning across S3, Athena and serverless pipelines in a financial services cloud transformation programme.

eFinancialCareers · London · £1,100 – £1,200 pd

Hands-on KDB+/q engineering role in a front-office technology team supporting electronic trading across Fixed Income markets. You will build real-time pricing, trading and risk applications, maintain data pipelines and APIs, and work directly with traders and quants on high-performance time-series platforms, including production support and releases.

eFinancialCareers · London · £700 pd

Hands-on role building AI-powered applications, intelligent workflows and machine learning solutions in Python, taking them from concept through to enterprise production deployment. Involves LLMs, agentic frameworks, AI orchestration, model evaluation, testing and monitoring, working with technical teams and business stakeholders to drive AI adoption.