CONTRACT DATA ENGINEER - INSIDE IR35

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Leeds, UK
15 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£195,000.0 - £208,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Big Data BigQuery Cloud Computing Information Engineering Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Retrieval Python (Programming Language) Standard Sql SQL Databases Enterprise Search Enterprise Data Management
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Google Cloud Retrieval-Augmented Generation Large Language Models Generative AI Indexer Event Driven Architecture Apache Kafka Data Management Data Pipelines

Job description

  • Designing and building scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines
  • Developing cloud-native data solutions within GCP
  • Engineering data platforms to support AI/LLM and RAG solutions
  • Building large-scale data ingestion, processing and enrichment capabilities
  • Developing event-driven architectures using Kafka
  • Building automation and data engineering solutions using Python and SQL
  • Supporting enterprise search, indexing and data retrieval capabilities
  • Ensuring data quality, governance, lineage and scalability

Requirements

  • Strong commercial GCP experience
  • Excellent Python and SQL skills
  • Strong Kafka / event-driven architecture experience
  • Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments
  • Exposure to AI/LLM and RAG solutions
  • Experience with BigQuery, vector databases, graph technologies or enterprise search would be beneficial

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a major enterprise programme at the intersection of data engineering, cloud and Generative AI., Data Engineer / GCP / Google Cloud Platform / Python / SQL / Kafka / AI / Generative AI / GenAI / LLM / Large Language Models / RAG / Retrieval-Augmented Generation / ETL / ELT / Data Pipelines / BigQuery / Vector Databases / Enterprise Search / Data Engineering / Enterprise Data

Benefits & conditions

£750-£800 per day Inside IR35 3-month initial contract Manchester or Leeds Hybrid, This is an initial 3-month contract with likely extensions, offering £750-£800 per day Inside IR35 and requiring 2 days per week on-site in Manchester or Leeds.

You’ll be working within a complex, enterprise-scale environment, building the data pipelines and platforms that underpin AI/LLM and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.

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