Snowflake Data Engineer Contract

Contract Data Engineer

£450-£480/day Outside IR35

6 Months

Hybrid (London)

A leading infrastructure investment firm is embarking on a complete rebuild of its data platform, starting with a greenfield Snowflake data warehouse, hosted in Azure. Backed by C-Suite sponsorship, this is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a major transformation project at its foundation. This role will support the existing Lead Data Engineer to ensure the back-end data stack continues to evolve in line with business needs, architectural best practices, and modern engineering standards.

As Data Engineer, you will:

• Support the Lead Data Engineer in driving development of the back-end stack.

• Own key elements of the Snowflake data warehouse build (greenfield project).

• Work closely with a consultant architect to implement a scalable, secure data platform.

• Engage with senior business stakeholders including COO, CFO, and Head of FP&A.

• Design robust ingestion pipelines, transformation logic, and QA frameworks.

• Potentially manage and mentor a junior engineer over time.

• Document architecture and development workflows.

You'll need:

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, and Python.

• Version control and collaboration using Git.

• Proven background in data modelling and architecture design.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Azure services (e.g., App registration, Storage Accounts).

• Familiarity with Terraform (especially Snowflake provider), DBT, Power Automate, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or others).

• Experience working on greenfield builds.

• Asset management experience.