Lead Data Engineer

<p><strong>Lead&nbsp;Data Engineer&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Urgent&nbsp;Contract&nbsp;Role&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;(Snowflake&nbsp;+&nbsp;Core&nbsp;Banking)</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Outside&nbsp;IR35&nbsp;|&nbsp;&pound;650-750/day&nbsp;|&nbsp;2-3&nbsp;days&nbsp;on-site&nbsp;in&nbsp;London&nbsp;|&nbsp;Initial&nbsp;3&nbsp;months&nbsp;|&nbsp;ASAP&nbsp;start</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We&rsquo;re&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;a&nbsp;financial&nbsp;services&nbsp;organisation&nbsp;standing&nbsp;up&nbsp;an&nbsp;entirely&nbsp;new&nbsp;banking&nbsp;data&nbsp;function,&nbsp;building&nbsp;a&nbsp;modern&nbsp;core&nbsp;banking&nbsp;platform&nbsp;using&nbsp;Snowflake.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;hands&nbsp;on&nbsp;technical&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;role&nbsp;responsible&nbsp;for&nbsp;architecting,&nbsp;designing,&nbsp;and&nbsp;building&nbsp;the&nbsp;full&nbsp;end&nbsp;to&nbsp;end&nbsp;data&nbsp;platform:&nbsp;ingestion,&nbsp;medallion&nbsp;layers,&nbsp;data&nbsp;warehouse&nbsp;stores,&nbsp;and&nbsp;downstream&nbsp;reporting.&nbsp;You&rsquo;ll&nbsp;be&nbsp;working&nbsp;across&nbsp;high&nbsp;volume&nbsp;financial&nbsp;data,&nbsp;streaming&nbsp;pipelines,&nbsp;and&nbsp;a&nbsp;modern&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;native&nbsp;stack.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>You&rsquo;ll&nbsp;own&nbsp;the&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;of&nbsp;scalable&nbsp;data&nbsp;foundations,&nbsp;medallion&nbsp;structured&nbsp;financial&nbsp;models,&nbsp;and&nbsp;operational&nbsp;reporting&nbsp;capabilities&nbsp;consumed&nbsp;across&nbsp;the&nbsp;business.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>You&nbsp;must&nbsp;be&nbsp;able&nbsp;to&nbsp;operate&nbsp;autonomously&nbsp;and&nbsp;bring&nbsp;deep&nbsp;experience&nbsp;in&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;and&nbsp;modern&nbsp;banking&nbsp;data&nbsp;architectures.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>You&nbsp;also&nbsp;must&nbsp;be&nbsp;available&nbsp;within&nbsp;the&nbsp;next&nbsp;2&nbsp;weeks&nbsp;and&nbsp;willing&nbsp;to&nbsp;go&nbsp;into&nbsp;a&nbsp;Central&nbsp;London&nbsp;office&nbsp;2-3&nbsp;days&nbsp;per&nbsp;week.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Key&nbsp;Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Architect&nbsp;and&nbsp;build&nbsp;all&nbsp;core&nbsp;data&nbsp;warehouse&nbsp;layers&nbsp;across&nbsp;Snowflake,&nbsp;including&nbsp;raw,&nbsp;staging,&nbsp;and&nbsp;curated&nbsp;financial&nbsp;domains</li> <li>Ingest&nbsp;and&nbsp;model&nbsp;data&nbsp;from&nbsp;a&nbsp;core&nbsp;banking&nbsp;system</li> <li>Integrate&nbsp;with&nbsp;an&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;integration&nbsp;layer&nbsp;and&nbsp;manage&nbsp;streaming&nbsp;ingestion&nbsp;where&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;subscribes&nbsp;to&nbsp;event&nbsp;streams</li> <li>Implement&nbsp;medallion&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;for&nbsp;financial&nbsp;datasets,&nbsp;ensuring&nbsp;accuracy,&nbsp;lineage,&nbsp;and&nbsp;auditability</li> <li>Define&nbsp;data&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;standards,&nbsp;best&nbsp;practices,&nbsp;and&nbsp;governance&nbsp;across&nbsp;a&nbsp;greenfield&nbsp;platform</li> <li>Act&nbsp;as&nbsp;the&nbsp;technical&nbsp;lead&nbsp;across&nbsp;the&nbsp;full&nbsp;data&nbsp;lifecycle&nbsp;including&nbsp;design,&nbsp;implementation,&nbsp;optimisation,&nbsp;and&nbsp;roll&nbsp;out</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Ideal&nbsp;Candidate</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;experience</li> <li>Background&nbsp;in&nbsp;banking&nbsp;or&nbsp;financial&nbsp;services&nbsp;data&nbsp;platforms</li> <li>Experience&nbsp;working&nbsp;with&nbsp;core&nbsp;banking&nbsp;data</li> <li>Demonstrated&nbsp;ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;build&nbsp;streaming&nbsp;ingestion&nbsp;and&nbsp;event&nbsp;driven&nbsp;pipelines</li> <li>Comfortable&nbsp;leading&nbsp;end&nbsp;to&nbsp;end&nbsp;implementation&nbsp;on&nbsp;a&nbsp;greenfield&nbsp;platform</li> <li>Strong&nbsp;stakeholder&nbsp;communication&nbsp;skills&nbsp;capable&nbsp;of&nbsp;shaping&nbsp;technical&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;and&nbsp;overall&nbsp;data&nbsp;strategy</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Tech&nbsp;Requirements:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Snowflake</li> <li>Core&nbsp;Banking&nbsp;Platform</li> <li>Integration&nbsp;Layer&nbsp;such&nbsp;as&nbsp;MuleSoft</li> <li>Streaming&nbsp;pipelines</li> <li>Medallion&nbsp;Architecture</li> <li>AWS&nbsp;storage&nbsp;and&nbsp;hosting</li> <li>SQL</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>If&nbsp;you&nbsp;are&nbsp;interested,&nbsp;please&nbsp;apply&nbsp;below.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="header-section ng-tns-c1731286977-40">&nbsp;</div> <p>, </p>