Staff Data Engineer London Con...

Staff Data Engineer AWS PySpark Data Modernisation London Contract Inside IR35

We're supporting a global, technology led organisation undertaking a large scale cloud data transformation programme.

This is not a traditional data engineering role. The organisation is modernising hundreds of complex data pipelines, establishing reusable engineering patterns and embedding engineering excellence across its data function.

As a staff level engineer you will combine deep hands on technical expertise with organisation wide technical influence, helping shape how modern data engineering is delivered across multiple engineering teams.

This is an opportunity to work on enterprise scale data movement, cloud native architectures and AI assisted software engineering within a highly collaborative engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Defining technical standards and engineering patterns for a large scale data modernisation programme
• Re engineering complex legacy data pipelines into production grade PySpark
• Building scalable, reusable data movement frameworks across multiple engineering teams
• Driving best practice around AWS Glue, Apache Spark and Apache Airflow
• Designing high quality testing frameworks covering performance, data quality and reliability
• Leveraging agentic AI development tools to improve engineering productivity while maintaining code quality
• Coaching and influencing experienced engineers through technical leadership rather than line management
• Working closely with enterprise architecture and platform teams to improve how data is governed, managed and consumed

Qualifications

• Staff, Principal or Lead Data Engineering roles
• Expertise in Python and PySpark
• Experience with AWS Glue, Apache Spark and Apache Airflow
• Cloud native data engineering architectures
• Large scale data pipeline modernisation
• Building reusable engineering patterns within enterprise environments
• Data testing, validation and observability
• AI assisted software development using modern coding assistants
• Experience working within regulated or highly governed organisations

Contract

• £750-£900 per day (inclusive)
• Initial 6 month contract with significant programme runway
• Inside IR35
• London (3 days per week on site)