Senior Data Engineer - Contract
Posted 12/05/2026 by 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:
Contact:
Please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus Recruitment Solutions for more information!
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
- 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!
- Type:
- Contract
- Start Date:
- 11/05/2026
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- AA-148
- Job ID:
- 225095818
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