Data Engineer (Contract)

Harnham
London, UK
24 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£117,000.0 - £119,600.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Airflow Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Information Engineering Data Infrastructure Data Warehousing R (Programming Language) Python (Programming Language) Software Engineering Snowflake AWS Data Analytics Terraform
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Docker

Job description

You’ll join a dedicated migration project, working alongside an established internal Data function to move legacy workloads onto the organisation’s modern data stack.

This isn’t simply building new Snowflake pipelines. You’ll need to understand existing workloads across technologies such as Redshift, EC2, R and Python, determine how they work, and redesign them within the new architecture.

You’ll work across:

  • Migrating legacy pipelines and workloads into Snowflake
  • Building and refactoring pipelines using Python
  • Developing orchestration through Airflow / MWAA
  • Infrastructure and deployment using Terraform and Docker
  • Supporting transformation and modelling using dbt
  • Working across both legacy and modern AWS data environments
  • Investigating existing systems and proactively solving migration challenges

Requirements

We’re looking for a broad, hands-on Data Engineer who is comfortable working across data engineering, software engineering and infrastructure.

Core experience:

  • Python
  • Airflow / MWAA
  • Snowflake
  • Terraform
  • AWS

Desirable experience:

  • dbt
  • Docker
  • Redshift
  • R
  • Data platform migrations or modernisation programmes, The ideal candidate will have worked within complex or fast-moving environments and be comfortable taking ownership, investigating unfamiliar systems and working across multiple technologies., * data engineer
  • migration
  • airflow
  • docker
  • snowflake
  • terraform
  • dbt

About the company

Harnham is partnering with a major European consumer organisation on a large-scale modernisation of its data platform.

Operating across multiple markets with millions of consumers, the organisation has grown significantly over time, resulting in a complex data estate spanning different technologies, platforms and legacy environments.

They are now investing in consolidating this into a standardised, modern Snowflake-based data platform and are looking for experienced Data Engineers to help accelerate the migration., You’ll be joining a large, established European consumer organisation undergoing significant investment in its data capabilities.

With thousands of employees, operations across multiple European markets and a significant consumer footprint, the scale of the organisation creates a genuinely complex engineering environment.

This is an opportunity to work on a major modernisation programme, helping consolidate years of legacy technology into a common, scalable data platform.

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