Data Engineer (Contract)

Role Overview:

This position sits within the technology transformation function of a multinational organisation, supporting enterprise-wide reporting, analytics, and modern data architecture initiatives. The role focuses on designing and operationalising automated data ingestion, transformation pipelines, and governed cloud-based data layers to enable business intelligence, process transparency, and AI-driven insights. It requires close collaboration with product, analytics, and portfolio teams to deliver scalable data solutions within a structured cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain automated ingestion pipelines from workflow tools and other enterprise data sources into cloud-based storage and analytics platforms.
• Develop and tune pipelines supporting batch and near-real-time loads, including incremental ingestion from relational databases.
• Design layered data architecture (raw to curated to consumption) and create models optimised for reporting, analytics, and downstream semantic layers.
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring mechanisms, and remediation workflows covering completeness, consistency, timeliness, and lineage tracking.
• Apply metadata governance, cataloguing, lifecycle rules, and policy enforcement using cloud-native governance tooling.
• Develop and validate transformation logic using SQL/Python, incorporating unit/integration testing and CI/CD deployment patterns.
• Collaborate with product owners and BI teams to translate reporting needs into data contracts, datasets, and model structures suitable for analytical tools.
• Produce technical documentation including schema definitions, runbooks, SLO/SLA expectations, and re-usable standards for future data products.

Key Requirements:

Must-Have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience building production-grade cloud data pipelines.
• Proven hands-on expertise with Google Cloud data services (e.g., BigQuery, Dataplex, Dataflow).
• Strong SQL capabilities, including performance tuning, stored procedures, and CDC patterns across RDBMS.
• Demonstrated experience integrating workflow platform APIs and processing structured files from enterprise repositories.
• Solid understanding of dimensional modelling, lakehouse patterns, and governed data architecture frameworks.
• Experience in data governance, quality validation rules, and monitoring frameworks.
• Familiarity with BI consumption patterns and semantic layer development.

Nice-to-Have:

• Exposure to insurance or financial services data domains.
• Working knowledge of Power BI modelling and DAX optimisation considerations.

If this role aligns with your experience and career goals, please send your application to [email protected].

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.