Contract Databricks Data Engineer (x2)
Location: Primarily Remote (Occasional travel to Worthing, including first day) Contract Length: 6 Months Rate: £400 per day IR35 Status: Outside IR35 The Opportunity We're supporting a major organisation that has invested heavily in a modern Databricks-powered data platform, transforming the way data is delivered across the business and enhancing the digital services available to its customers.
The business has developed a sophisticated customer-facing portal that leverages high-quality, accessible data to improve user experiences and provide customers with greater visibility and control over their financial journeys. As demand for data services continues to grow, they are looking to bring in two Databricks Data Engineers to support the ongoing evolution and day-to-day operation of the platform.
This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who enjoy working within established cloud data environments, contributing across data provisioning, platform improvements, code quality, testing, and pipeline development. Key Responsibilities
Building and enhancing data pipelines within an existing Databricks environment
Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities across data projects
Providing and managing data access requests
Conducting code reviews and promoting engineering best practice
Collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to deliver new data products
Supporting data quality, validation and troubleshooting activities
Maintaining and optimising existing ETL and data transformation processes
Working within an agile delivery team to support ongoing platform enhancements
Required Skills & Experience
Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer
Excellent Databricks experience
Strong SQL development skills
Solid Python programming experience
Experience building and maintaining data pipelines
Exposure to code review processes and engineering best practices
Experience supporting testing and UAT activities
Strong stakeholder communication skills
Desirable Experience
Experience working within Azure-based data environments
Understanding of modern data platforms and cloud data architectures
Exposure to data governance, security, and access management processes
What's on Offer?
6-month initial contract
Outside IR35 engagement
£400 per day
Primarily remote working arrangement
Opportunity to work on a mature Databricks platform supporting critical business services
Immediate impact within a collaborative and well-established data team
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