Contract - Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake Cortex)

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver Snowflake Cortex-based data pipelines in a HealthTech setting. You will build cloud-native platforms on AWS, ingest healthcare data, and transform clinical data into analytics-ready datasets.

The role emphasizes secure, GDPR-compliant design, engaging with stakeholders, and delivering scalable solutions across Snowflake, Snowpipes, dbt, and Airflow on an on-site London footprint two days per week.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL and Python with experience delivering modern cloud-based data platforms.
• Enterprise level Snowflake experience.
• Strong AWS data engineering experience (Glue preferred).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake Cortex

AWS

ETL pipelines

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

Docker

GitHub CI/CD

Job description

Contract - Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake Cortex)

Rate: £(Apply online only) per day, Outside IR35

Location: London (2 days per week, on-site)

Start Date: Monday 9th November 2026

Length: 6 months initially, with a chance of extension.

Interview Stages: 1-stage over Teams, with joint company owners (CEO and CTO)

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.

The role:

• 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

Requirements

• 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