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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Neweasy
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £143,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Database Connection, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Sql Optimization, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Data Management, Event Sourcing, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-data-engineer/57362158

## About the Role

* 5+ years' progressive data engineering experience
 * Strong Databricks and Spark expertise - platform internals, performance, DAB, Delta Lake, declarative pipelines
 * Advanced Python, with solid software/DevOps practice (version control, unit testing, pipelines-as-code, CI/CD)
 * Excellent data modelling skills, comfortable with tradeoffs across technical and organisational lines (Conway's Law)
 * Advanced SQL, with experience querying data lakes/lakehouses
 * Experience ingesting data via APIs, database connections or other methods
 * Strong Agile delivery experience in a self-organising team
 * Clear, persuasive communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have: platform engineering exposure, event sourcing/data modelling experience, ML/AI operationalisation on data platforms, PostgreSQL, dbt.

## Description

You'll join a growing team modernising a legacy estate onto a modern Event Sourcing Architecture, producing high-quality data for analytics via a flexible, platform-engineering-led approach. This is a genuine build role - shaping the technical direction of the platform, not just maintaining what's there., * Design, build and operate high-quality data pipelines end-to-end

 * Lead on data modelling, working closely with business analysts and engineers to structure data for clarity, integrity and efficiency
 * Be involved across the full project lifecycle - planning through to delivery and run
 * Maintain a strong security and data-protection focus throughout, Details: Hybrid, 2-3 days/week in London. 12-month contract, £550/day outside IR35.
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