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# Contract - Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake Cortex)

- **Company:** Opus Recruitment Solutions
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, ARM Architecture, Clinical Data Repository, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Github, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Data Ingestion, Sql Optimization, Snowflake, Build Management, AWS Data Analytics, Data Management, OPUS (Software), Terraform, Meditech, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hiredonline.co.uk/jobs/225731634-contract-senior-data-engineer-snowflake-cortex/opus-recruitment-solutions

## About the Role

Must have advanced SQL and Python + experience delivering modern cloud-based data platforms
Must have enterprise level snowflake experience
Strong AWS data engineering experience (Glue preferred)

Nice to have:
Relevant HealthTech / MedTech experience
Snowflake Cortex experience
Snowpro / AWS Certifications
Experience handling sensitive data / Knowledge of GDPR, NHS DSPT or healthcare compliance frameworks

## Description

Opus have partnered with a rapidly growing HealthTech start-up who's recently received funding. They're on a mission to build a next-gen data platform for processing millions of confidential patient records and clinical documents securely, and at scale. The successful Data Engineer will play a pivotal part in helping to design and deliver AI-enabled document processing pipelines using Snowflake Cortex, helping to extract valuable insights from unstructured healthcare data including patient records, referral letters, clinical notes, PDFs and compliance documentation., Design and build scalable data pipelines in Snowflake (Snowpipes)

 - Design and develop cloud-native data platforms on AWS and Snowflake
 - Build resilient document ingestion pipelines for healthcare data
 - Develop ETL frameworks to transform raw clinical data into analytics ready datasets
 - Build secure and compliant solutions that align with GDPR and healthcare data governance standards

Stack: Snowflake | Snowflake Cortex | AWS - S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions | Python | SQL | dbt | Airflow| Terraform | Docker | GitHub CI/CD