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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** Cardiff, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £156,000.0 - £182,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Database, Database Testing, Standard Sql, DataOps, Data Streaming, Snowflake, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-C393A7CF4B8FD387FC/

## About the Role

* 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

## 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.


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