Data Engineer/Architect | 6-Month Contract | Outside IR35 | £550-£650/day | Hybrid

I’m currently recruiting for a Data Engineer/Architect to support a large-scale data transformation programme, with a particular focus on designing and migrating data pipelines from Legacy platforms into a modern cloud-based data environment. This role would suit someone who is hands-on enough to understand how data engineering solutions are delivered, but who also has the architectural capability to define target-state designs, migration approaches, and best practice across the wider programme. You’ll be working closely with technical and business stakeholders to assess the current data landscape, design future-state data solutions, and create scalable migration strategies for a large number of existing data pipelines. A key part of the role will involve translating business and technical requirements into robust, efficient and maintainable data architectures. The organisation is currently modernising its data platform and moving towards a Microsoft-centric data ecosystem, so experience designing and delivering cloud-based data solutions within Azure environments is highly desirable. Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks or similar modern data platforms would be beneficial.

• Strong Data Architecture and Solution Design experience
• Extensive experience designing and delivering Data Pipeline Migrations
• Source-to-Target Mapping and Data Transformation Design
• Data Integration Architecture across multiple source systems
• ETL/ELT Design and Modern Data Engineering Principles
• Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric or similar cloud data platforms
• Experience designing scalable cloud-based data solutions
• Data Modelling (Conceptual, Logical & Physical)
• Strong understanding of Data Warehousing and Lakehouse architectures
• Experience working across both architecture and engineering teams
• Stakeholder management and ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience producing high and low-level solution designs

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major transformation programme where you’ll play a key role in shaping the future data platform and defining the migration approach for a significant portfolio of existing data assets and pipelines.