Senior Data Engineer - Streaming & Content Analytics

Simon James IT Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Simon James IT Ltd seeks a Senior Data Engineer (Level III) for a 12-month contract with a leading digital entertainment giant. You will design, build and operate scalable data pipelines and models powering customer analytics and product features.

Based in London near Liverpool Street, this role is on-site five days a week. You will work across SDLC, cloud platforms, and IaC, collaborating with software engineers, data scientists and business stakeholders to deliver high-performance data

Qualifications

• Senior data engineer with SDLC, code reviews, and testing.
• Expert-level SQL and at least one modern scripting language.
• Experience building and operating distributed data systems for large-scale data warehousing.
• Familiarity with cloud-native big data ecosystems and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Design robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and transform data streams.
• Scale with cloud infrastructure to process massive datasets efficiently.
• Maintain data platform using infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists and stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Implement automated data quality frameworks to detect anomalies and optimize costs.

Skills

Core Engineering

Programming & SQL

Big Data & Pipelines

Cloud Infrastructure

Job description

Simon James IT Ltd seeks a Senior Data Engineer (Level III) for a 12-month contract with a leading digital entertainment giant. You will design, build and operate scalable data pipelines and models powering customer analytics and product features.

Based in London near Liverpool Street, this role is on-site five days a week. You will work across SDLC, cloud platforms, and IaC, collaborating with software engineers, data scientists and business stakeholders to deliver high-performance data