Data Engineer

TrueNorth®; Greater London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative e-commerce company is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join their team on a 6-month contract with potential for extension. This fully remote position requires expertise in designing cloud-based data lake architectures and building scalable data pipelines. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in workflow orchestration and a proven track record in technical leadership. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will significantly impact the company's data strategy and engineering practices. If you're passionate about data engineering and ready for a new challenge, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cloud-based data lake architectures.
• Deep expertise in workflow orchestration and production-grade DAGs.
• Proven leadership in technical design and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale cloud-based data lake architectures.
• Build reliable and scalable batch and streaming pipelines.
• Implement data quality and observability systems.

Skills

Cloud-based data lake architectures

Workflow orchestration using Airflow

Building batch and streaming pipelines

Data quality and observability systems

Technical design leadership

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL

dbt

Job description

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Building High-Performing AI/ML & Data Science Teams | TrueNorth

TrueNorth are working with a growing e-commerce company that are looking for I'm currently a Staff Data Engineer to join them on an initial 6-month contract (with strong potential to extend). This is a fully remote role and sits outside IR35.

Key Requirements:

• Significant experience designing and scaling cloud-based data lake architectures (ideally Delta Lake on Databricks or similar)
• Deep expertise in workflow orchestration using Airflow, with production-grade DAGs and solid dependency management, knowledge of dbt is preferable
• Strong background in building reliable, scalable batch and streaming pipelines using Spark (ideally Scala) Python and SQL
• Hands-on experience implementing data quality, observability, and lineage systems across distributed environments
• Proven leadership in technical design, platform adoption, and mentoring engineers on best practices

The role can be worked remotely from anywhere in the UK (you must have the right to work already in place, we are unable to sponsor)

Please apply for more info.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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