Senior Data Engineer - Edinburgh - Contract

Senior Data Engineer - Edinburgh

I'm currently supporting a leading global financial services organization that is looking to hire experienced Senior Data Engineers to join a team delivering a strategic wealth management platform built on GBST Composer.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms, pipelines, and data products that enable analytics, reporting, and AI/ML solutions. You'll help ensure data is reliable, secure, performant, and accessible across the organisation, and contribute to the data strategy underpinning new GBST-based product features.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer data products that are stable, scalable, performant, testable and secure.
• Apply endorsed technologies and common build patterns to minimise technical debt.
• Adhere to group policies and frameworks for build and release.
• Participate in design/implementation reviews and team ceremonies - plan, commit to clear goals, prioritise, and escalate impediments.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and drive reuse.
• Participate in technical communities to advance shared engineering capabilities.
• Support incident root-cause analysis and promote strong application custodianship.
• Mentor early-career engineers and support technical hiring via paired-programming interviews.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience working with or integrating into the GBST Composer platform.
• Cloud Platforms: GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run).
• Data Engineering: SQL, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Data Modelling.
• Streaming & Integration: Kafka, REST APIs, Microservices.
• Google Cloud Storage (GCS) for building robust ETL/ELT pipelines, DataOps, CI/CD.
• Visualization & Reporting: Power BI or similar BI tools.
• Data Governance, Quality, and Security practices.
• Hands-on experience with data formats such as JSON, ORC and CSV, with knowledge of schema design, partitioning and performance tuning in BigQuery.

Desirable Experience

• Development experience on Google Cloud Platform.
• Programming in Python and/or Scala.
• Exposure to Data Vault, Data Factory, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Integration, Master/Reference Data Management, Data Lake and Data Visualization.

Contract Details

• Duration: 6 - 12 Months
• Rate: £400 - £420 (day rate)
• Location: Edinburgh (Minimum 2 days onsite)
• Start Date: ASAP