IT
Data Engineer | Start: ASAP | Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom / Remote | Duration: 12-24 Months
Edinburgh Remote, United Kingdom40% remoteFreelanceasapDuration 12 months100% workload
Artificial IntelligenceAirflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureBig DataCloud ComputingInformation EngineeringData GovernanceExtract Transform Load (ETL)Data ModelingData QualityDistributed SystemsPython (Programming Language)SQL DatabasesUnstructured DataWorkflowsApache SparkData ManagementData Pipeline
Description
Senior Data Engineer (Contract)
What you’ll do
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Onsite: 3 days per week – mandatory / Remote
Start: ASAP
Duration: 12-24 months (extension very likely)
Headcount: 11 FTE (Contractors)
Language: English (must-have)
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for large, complex datasets
- Work hands-on with structured & unstructured data across multiple sources
- Ensure data quality, reliability and performance end-to-end
- Collaborate closely with AI / ML teams to deliver model-ready datasets
- Support data governance, lineage and documentation (pragmatic, not bureaucratic)
- Strong Data Engineering background (senior level)
- Excellent Python & SQL skills
- Experience with big data environments (e.g. Spark, distributed systems, cloud data platforms)
- Solid understanding of data modelling, ETL/ELT, pipelines
- Comfortable working onsite in Edinburgh 3x/week
- Exposure to ML / AI data workflows
- Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow / similar)
- Cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP)
What we need
If you are interested and available — or if you know someone you would recommend as we are looking for 11 Data Engineers — I’d be happy to receive your updated CV with a short email incl. contact details to: Paco.Varol@WorkGenius.com.
Please always include:
- Availability start date
- Hourly rate (Edinburgh & Remote)
- A short 2–3 line summary explaining why your background is a good fit for this project
Thank you!