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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Engineer - **Company:** Harnham - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £100,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Adaptable Database Systems, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Workflow Management Systems, Snowflake, Data Management, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-data-engineer/57263688 ## About the Role We're looking for experienced engineers who have built modern data platforms in fast-moving technology businesses. You'll ideally have: * Strong Python and SQL experience * Experience with Snowflake * Experience using dbt * Experience with Dagster, Airflow or another modern orchestration framework * AWS experience (GCP also considered) * Strong understanding of data modelling principles * Experience building end-to-end data platforms * A software engineering or backend engineering background is highly desirable * Experience working within product-led scale-ups or smaller technology companies * A passion for clean code, testing and engineering best practices ## Description Remote (UK) - Quarterly team meetups in London Up to £100,000 + Excellent Benefits Build the data platform powering one of the UK's fastest-growing tech scale-ups. We're partnering with an exciting, venture-backed technology business that's redefining its industry through a modern, mobile-first platform. Having recently secured £30m in Series C funding, the company is entering its next phase of growth and investing heavily in its data platform to support millions of customer interactions and lower-latency analytics. If you're an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building scalable platforms and working in a high-performing engineering culture, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact. THE COMPANY This fast-growing UK technology business has built a modern digital platform designed for today's users, combining exceptional product design with cutting-edge engineering. With significant recent investment and ambitious growth plans, they're expanding their Data Engineering function to build the next generation of their data platform. Engineering quality is everything here. The team sets an exceptionally high technical bar, values ownership and autonomy, and gives engineers the opportunity to shape architecture, tooling and best practices from day one. THE ROLE You'll join a growing Data Engineering team focused on scaling the company's data platform to support continued customer growth. Current projects include building a full staging environment, improving monitoring and observability, enhancing engineering tooling, and enabling lower-latency analytics across the business. Working end-to-end across the data platform, you'll design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines while helping evolve the overall architecture., * Designing and building scalable data pipelines using Python and SQL * Developing solutions with Snowflake, dbt and modern orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow * Building and improving cloud-native data infrastructure on AWS (or transferable GCP experience) * Developing scalable data models and supporting the wider platform architecture * Improving testing, monitoring and engineering best practices across the platform * Working across both greenfield initiatives and existing production environments * Collaborating with engineers to deliver robust, production-grade data solutions ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [Enjoying SQL data pipelines with dbt](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/823-enjoying-sql-data-pipelines-with-dbt) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [Hacking AI at the Edge of the Indian Ocean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100177-hacking-ai-at-the-edge-of-the-indian-ocean) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers)