Contract Data Engineer Remote (Occasional travel to Letchworth) 3 Month Contract + Possible Extensions 400 - 500 per dayThis Contract Data Engineer role joins a well-established UK group, with several businesses under one roof, partway through building its Azure data platform.You''ll work alongside a small team of data engineers and own work end to end: talking to stakeholders, designing models, building and testing pipelines in Python and PySpark, and supporting BI. It''s remote, and the platform is growing from one business to the whole group, so there''s real work to get stuck into from day one.What You''ll Be DoingGathering requirements with data, product and senior stakeholders, and helping them with data-related technical issuesDesigning conceptual, logical and physical data models as the platform expandsBuilding metadata-driven pipelines across Azure Synapse, Data Factory and PostgreSQL using Python and PySparkMigrating data from legacy reporting solutions onto the platform while protecting data integrityReleasing code through Azure DevOps and Git, and keeping documentation and data mapping up to dateMonitoring and tuning data loads, supporting BI users, and joining an out-of-hours rota for business-critical issuesWhat You''ll BringHands-on experience as a Data Engineer, building and maintaining data pipelinesStrong Python and PySpark skillsExperience with Azure data services such as Synapse, Databricks or Data FactoryGood SQL and data modelling skillsConfidence ..... full job details .....