Lead/Senior Data Engineer (SC Cleared) Location: London (Hybrid - 2-3 days per week on site) Duration: ASAP start until end of March 2027 Rate: £500-£575per day - Outside IR35 Clearance: Active SC clearance required The Role Synergetic are looking for Lead and Senior Data Engineers to join a data platform team. You''ll build the tools, services and pipelines that give analysts and data scientists timely, consistent, auditable and reproducible access to data. This is a hands-on engineering role on a modern AWS data stack. It suits contractors who care about doing data engineering properly: tested, version-controlled, automated and deployed as code. Key Responsibilities Design and build robust, scalable, automated data pipelines using best-practice processing patterns Turn raw data sources into usable, well-modelled datasets with dbt Deploy AWS cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code Build tools and services that help people use data effectively Work directly with data users to understand and meet their needs Lead data projects and manage stakeholders Essential Skills Active SC clearance Strong Python and SQL Data modelling with dbt Orchestration with Airflow AWS data services, including S3, Athena and Glue Infrastructure as code on AWS Version control with Git Automated testing (eg pytest) Proven record of designing and building production data pipelines Desirable Skills Spark Kubernetes and container-based workflows CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions ..... full job details .....