Senior Data Engineer - Contract

Opus Recruitment Solutions

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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