Contract Data Engineer — Legal Document & Text Pipelines

Harnham; Randstad; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive contract rates

Flexible working arrangements

Opportunity for complex data challenges

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to work on a contract basis. The ideal candidate will design and maintain data solutions for large volumes of unstructured text data, supporting legal data initiatives. Responsibilities include building data pipelines, document parsing, and collaboration with legal teams. Candidates should have proven experience in data engineering, proficiency in Python and SQL, and exposure to document-heavy environments. This role offers competitive rates and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer in a document-heavy environment.
• Strong experience with unstructured and semi-structured data.
• Experience with document parsing, text processing or data extraction techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data pipelines for unstructured text data.
• Build solutions for document ingestion, parsing, and transformation.
• Support document classification and metadata extraction.

Skills

Data Engineering

Document Parsing

Text Processing

Python

SQL

NLP

OCR

Attention to Detail

Tools

Cloud-based data platforms

Text Analytics Tools

Job description

A leading law firm is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to work on a contract basis. The ideal candidate will design and maintain data solutions for large volumes of unstructured text data, supporting legal data initiatives. Responsibilities include building data pipelines, document parsing, and collaboration with legal teams. Candidates should have proven experience in data engineering, proficiency in Python and SQL, and exposure to document-heavy environments. This role offers competitive rates and flexible working arrangements.