Data Engineering Jobs

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.

Morson Edge · Heathrow, United States · £625 – £650 pd

Lead data and AI engineering work for a major airline, focused on AWS, Snowflake and CI/CD pipelines. The role is inside IR35 and requires one to two days per week on-site at Heathrow, with the remainder likely remote.

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.

eFinancialCareers · London · £600 – £700 pd

Shapes future-state architecture across a data platform landscape, leading build vs. buy assessments and providing strategic direction to delivery and technology teams. Supports the transition from current to target-state architecture, resolving conflicts and dependencies while weighing low-code/no-code and AI trends. Requires banking and enterprise data platform expertise.

eFinancialCareers · London

Lead the design and delivery of a mission-critical risk data platform for a financial markets clearing organisation, building batch-processing services for market and historical time-series data. The role is hands-on, owning architecture, engineering standards and complex technical decisions, with strong Java 11+ (17+ preferred) and Spring Boot skills. Works closely with infrastructure, security, DevOps and Quant Risk teams, including production support and an on-call rota.