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# Data Engineer (Contract)

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £117,000.0 - £119,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Docker
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/data-engineer-contract/57298654

## About the Role

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

## 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


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