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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** IntaPeople IT Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £111,462.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Code Review, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, SQL Databases, Data Processing, Snowflake, Information Technology, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.intapeople.com/job/senior-data-engineer-25464/apply.aspx

## About the Role

* Strong SQL skills, including complex data manipulation and performance optimisation
 * Proven experience designing, developing and supporting ETL/data pipeline solutions
 * Strong Python development experience
 * Commercial experience working with Snowflake
 * Strong understanding of data warehousing and data modelling principles
 * Experience working within Agile delivery environments
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

## Description

We're recruiting a Senior Data Engineer to join a collaborative data platform team developing business-critical data products and services.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced data professional who enjoys solving complex data challenges, building scalable pipelines and working with modern cloud technologies. The successful candidate will play a key role in the ongoing development, optimisation and support of an established data platform while also mentoring more junior engineers within the team.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining robust data solutions that support a wide range of business and customer-facing applications.

Working closely with engineers, analysts and stakeholders, you'll help drive best practice across data engineering, data quality and platform performance whilst contributing to the evolution of the organisation's data capabilities., * Design, develop and maintain ETL and data integration solutions

 * Build and optimise scalable data pipelines using SQL and Python
 * Support and enhance a cloud-based data platform
 * Work with stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions
 * Contribute to data modelling and data architecture initiatives
 * Troubleshoot and resolve complex data-related issues
 * Contribute to engineering best practices, code reviews and continuous improvement activities
 * Support infrastructure and platform automation initiatives


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