Data Engineer
Posted Today by twentyAI
£600 Per day
Outside
Onsite
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Contract Data Engineer involves working with a major energy trading company in Central London to support their digital transformation by building and maintaining data infrastructure and pipelines. The position requires hands-on experience and the ability to tackle complex data integration challenges while collaborating with data scientists. The engineer will be involved in developing BI dashboards and optimizing data solutions for performance. This is a contract role that emphasizes practical contributions to a significant digitalization program.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines across ETL and ELT workloads.
- Helping users navigate the big data platform, ingest new data, and debug issues.
- Tackling complex integration challenges across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources.
- Pre-processing, cleansing, and delivering high-quality data for advanced analytics and modelling.
- Working closely with data scientists to help scale ML and AI models.
- Developing BI dashboards and optimizing pipelines and frameworks for performance.
- Owning requirements, design, build, and maintenance of end-to-end data solutions.
- Using CI/CD tooling like Azure DevOps or Jenkins and following solid engineering practices.
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Python (including Pandas) and PySpark or similar distributed frameworks.
- Confident SQL across TSQL, ANSI SQL, Spark SQL.
- Real experience with cloud data services (Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, or equivalents on AWS/GCP).
- Ability to dive deep into datasets, understand structure, and communicate insights clearly.
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data at scale.
- Bonus points for data lakes, open-source data tooling, data warehousing, hybrid cloud, or experience in commodities/trading.
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Contract Data Engineer – Central London – Outside IR35 – Up to £600/day
We’re partnering with a major energy trading player that’s in the middle of a multi-year digital transformation. They’re rebuilding their data stack from the ground up and need a sharp contract Data Engineer who can get hands-on fast and push things forward without hand-holding. Three days a week on site in Central London. You’ll be dropped straight into Stage One of a large Digitalisation Program, working in a team that’s building next-gen data infrastructure, pipelines, and AI/ML enablement tooling. If you’re the type who wants to shape real industrial systems rather than churn out toy projects, this is the right environment.
What you’ll be doing
- Building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines across ETL and ELT workloads.
- Helping users navigate the big data platform, ingest new data, and debug issues.
- Tackling complex integration challenges across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources.
- Pre-processing, cleansing, and delivering high-quality data for advanced analytics and modelling.
- Working closely with data scientists to help scale ML and AI models.
- Developing BI dashboards and optimising pipelines and frameworks for performance.
- Owning requirements, design, build, and maintenance of end-to-end data solutions.
- Using CI/CD tooling like Azure DevOps or Jenkins and following solid engineering practices.
What you need to bring
- Strong hands-on experience with Python (including Pandas) and PySpark or similar distributed frameworks.
- Confident SQL across TSQL, ANSI SQL, Spark SQL.
- Real experience with cloud data services (Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, or equivalents on AWS/GCP).
- Ability to dive deep into datasets, understand structure, and communicate insights clearly.
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data at scale.
- Bonus points for data lakes, open-source data tooling, data warehousing, hybrid cloud, or experience in commodities/trading.
Contract details
- Outside IR35
- Up to £600/day
- 2-3 days a week onsite in Central London
- Start ASAP
If you want to work on a genuinely forward-looking data program with real commercial impact, this is worth your time.