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Role:Senior Data Engineer


Contract Length:Initial 2 months, with potential for extension

Day Rate:Circa £400/day

Location:Fully remote

Engagement:Outside IR35

Client:US-based Consultancy


Note:Candidates must be available to work with US-based teams (Eastern Time) for some crossover hours (UK is +5 hrs).


Project Overview

A US-based consultancy is seeking a seasoned Senior Data Engineer to support a short-term engagement aimed at optimising a client’s data infrastructure. The objective is to consolidate existing manual reports into a unified, automated reporting platform using Power BI, underpinned by modern cloud data technologies.

This is a hands-on role focused on the architecture and implementation of the data platform, reporting workflows, and automation of data refreshes.


Essential Skills & Experience

You should have demonstrable experience in the following:

  • Microsoft Azure (Cloud Infrastructure):Hosting and deploying data infrastructure.
  • GitHub:Used for repository hosting and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Snowflake (Data Warehouse):Designing, building and maintaining scalable, cost-effective data warehouse solutions.
  • OpenTofu:(Fork of Terraform) Used for managing Snowflake infrastructure as code.
  • DBT (Data Build Tool):For transforming and modelling data within Snowflake to create clean, reportable datasets.
  • Power BI:For building dynamic, automated reports.


Desirable (Nice-to-Have) Experience

Experience integrating the following platforms into Snowflake via Azure Function Apps or Zapier is beneficial:

  • Sera CRM:Data ingestion from event triggers (e.g. appointment, invoice, quote, membership events).
  • Five9 (Contact Centre):API-based report ingestion (inbound/outbound call data).
  • QuickBooks Online:Scheduled extraction of financial data for reporting purposes (e.g. Sales by Class Summary).

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