Data Engineer – HIRING ASAP – Outside IR35

Start date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months initially with a view to extend
Location: Remote (Need to be UK Based)
Rate: £400 - £530 per day outside ir35
 
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and batch/streaming workflows.
  • Integrate data from external APIs and internal systems into Snowflake and downstream tools.
  • Use web scraping / browser automation to pull data from platforms that only have UI based data extract capabilities (no APIs) 
  • Own critical parts of our Airflow-based orchestration layer and Kafka-based event streams.
  • Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability across our pipelines and platforms.
  • Build shared data tools and frameworks to support analytics and reporting use cases.
  • Partner closely with analysts, product managers, and other engineers to support data-driven decisions.
Key Skills
  • 3 years of experience as a Data Engineer working on data infrastructure.
  • Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with SQL
  • Experience with modern orchestration tools like Airflow.
  • Experience with APIs and extracting data from APIs.
  • Understanding of data modelling, governance, and performance tuning in warehouse environments.
  • Comfort operating in a cloud-native environment like AWS.
  • Terraform experience.
Nice to have
  • Snowflake
  • Web scraping via browser automation (playwright / selenium / puppeteer for example)