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London / £500 - £600 day

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£500 - £600

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London

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Databricks Data Engineer
London | Contract
This is an opportunity to take ownership of a high-impact data engineering programme within a modern AWS and Databricks environment. You will play a key role in expanding a governed enterprise data platform, onboarding business-critical systems, enhancing data quality and governance, and helping shape the organisation's long-term data strategy.
The Company
They are a data-driven organisation investing in a modern cloud-based analytics platform built on Databricks, AWS, and Unity Catalog. With core foundations already established, they are entering the next phase of their data transformation journey, focused on creating a scalable, governed, and trusted data estate. The successful contractor will work closely with senior engineering stakeholders to help deliver a strategic roadmap across data engineering, governance, and platform operations.
The Role and Deliverables
  • Assess the existing Databricks environment, identify risks and improvement opportunities, and recommend delivery priorities.
  • Build reusable, configuration-driven ingestion frameworks and onboard structured business systems into a bronze, silver, and gold architecture.
  • Extend and enhance enterprise data models covering customer, engagement, finance, utilisation, recruitment, and operational data domains.
  • Implement data governance capabilities including lineage, metadata management, classification tagging, access controls, and data quality monitoring.
  • Enhance CI/CD processes, automated testing, monitoring, alerting, and cost management across the Databricks platform.
  • Provide architectural guidance, documentation, stakeholder demonstrations, and knowledge transfer to internal teams.
Your Skills & Experience
  • Strong experience delivering data engineering solutions using Databricks on AWS.
  • Strong SQL and Python development skills within cloud data platforms.
  • Experience building scalable ETL and ELT pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and modern DataOps practices.
  • Deep understanding of Unity Catalog, data governance, metadata management, lineage, and access control frameworks.
  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, and production support processes.
  • Strong knowledge of dimensional modelling, enterprise data modelling, and data warehousing concepts.
  • Experience implementing data quality frameworks covering completeness, freshness, uniqueness, and referential integrity.
  • Ability to engage stakeholders and provide clear architectural recommendations, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Databricks Data Engineer looking to drive a major cloud data platform initiative, please apply with your latest CV.

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