75 jobs
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.
Syntax Consultancy Leeds £500 – £550 pd
Hands-on Data Engineer to run and maintain production data pipelines on Databricks and AWS, combining L2/L3 production support with engineering work. Involves incident investigation, root cause analysis, permanent remediation, and performance troubleshooting across Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Parquet and Hive metastore tables. Works on a large-scale Government project within a hybrid model, mostly remote with occasional Leeds office travel.
Palantir Technologies Sydney, Australia
Forward Deployed Software Engineers embed with government customers to understand open-ended problems and build data-driven solutions, spanning architecture discussions, large-scale data wrangling, custom web apps and executive briefings. Interns work in small teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end delivery of high-stakes projects, using languages such as Python, Java, C++ or TypeScript.
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 £550 – £700 pd
Hands-on contract bridging fund accounting and technology during a Real Estate finance platform upgrade. You will map how accounting and investment data flows, interrogate large financial datasets with SQL Server/T-SQL, and build migration and reconciliation processes, supporting testing and conversion while resolving data discrepancies across funds, entities and reporting periods.
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
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.
