Data Engineer

Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Cardiff, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
£156,000.0 - £182,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Cloud Database Database Testing Standard Sql DataOps Data Streaming Snowflake Data Analytics Data Pipelines

Job description

Working with an Insurtech client based in Cardiff who are looking for 3x Data Engineer contractors to join their Data & Analytics capability and support a combination of business-as-usual priorities and two significant strategic initiatives.

All three contractors will work within cross-functional squads, partnering closely with engineers, analysts, product teams and business stakeholders. We are looking for people who can operate with autonomy, move at pace and build high-quality, scalable data solutions rather than simply deliver pipelines to specification.

Requirements

  • Strong SQL and data modelling skills
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake
  • Strong DBT or equivalent modern transformation experience
  • Cloud data engineering experience, ideally AWS
  • Building production-grade data pipelines and data products
  • Data testing, quality and engineering best practices
  • Experience working within Agile/cross-functional product teams
  • Ability to work autonomously and deliver at pace
  • Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration

Data Engineer, Nice to have:

  • Experience in insurance, FinTech or other regulated environments
  • Event-driven, streaming or high-volume data experience
  • Data contracts and schema management
  • Data observability and lineage
  • Experience designing data for analytics, ML or AI consumption
  • Experience contributing to greenfield system or platform builds

Data Engineer, DBT, Snowflake, AWS, Insurance

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