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WA Consultants is currently recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer for an initial 4-month contract in Westminster, London. This will be a hybrid working position with the expectation of two site visits per week.


Essential skills:


* Strong experience designing, building and maintaining data pipelines using modern, cloud-based tools and practices
* Proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering tasks
* Experience with DBT and a good understanding of data modelling approaches (e.g. star schema, dimensional modelling)
* Familiarity with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
* Comfortable working with AWS services such as Glue and S3, or equivalent cloud infrastructure
* Experience using version control and CI/CD tools like Git and GitHub Actions
* Confident working independently and taking ownership of problems and solutions
* Comfortable engaging directly with stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, to understand needs, share ideas and shape solutions
* Willingness to work closely with users, gather feedback, and iterate quickly to improve products and data quality
* Adaptable, curious, and open to experimenting with new tools, techniques and ways of working, including AI coding assistants and lean, cross-functional approaches.


Please note, this role has been deemed by our client to fall inside of IR35. For further information, please contact Alexander Wilson.


WA Consultants is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as described within The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations .

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