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Senior Data Engineer - Contract

Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Liverpool Contract GBP 143,000 – 156,000
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Senior Data Engineer (Financial Services), London
Rate: up to £600 per day (Outside IR35)
Length: 6 months inital, possibility of extension, starting June 2026.
Working Pattern: 2 days on-site (Liverpool St.) per week.

Opus are working with a leading financial services firm who're decommissioning their legacy on-prem data warehouse and migrating all critical workloads to Snowflake on AWS. They need a contract Senior Data Engineer to rebuild pipelines, refactor legacy ETL, and ensure a clean cutover for regulatory and analytics teams. You'll be joining an existing team of 3 Data Engineers and one Architect who're working on this project.

Responsibilites:

  • Snowflake migration - Rebuild models, schemas, and ELT pipelines

  • AWS data engineering - Glue, Lambda, S3, Step Functions

  • Legacy decommissioning - Analyse ETL, lineage, dependencies

  • Data reconciliation -Validate parity between old and new platforms

Requirments:
  • Strong Snowflake and AWS senior engineering experience

  • Excellent Python and SQL

  • Ideally, a background in financial services

  • Experience migrating legacy data warehouses


Contact:

Please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus Recruitment Solutions for more information!

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