Contract Databricks Data Engineer

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