Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Financial Services

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh

Duration: 3 months initially (likely extension)

Rate: Up to £800 p/d inside IR35 (via umbrella)

The Role

Major Financial Services organisation looking for an experienced Data Engineer to build scalable data pipelines and knowledge solutions supporting an Enterprise Knowledge Base (EKB).

You'll work across data ingestion, enrichment, indexing and knowledge graphs, transforming enterprise data into searchable, governed and AI-consumable formats.

Key Responsibilities

• Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and SQL


• Work with BigQuery, Google Spanner, Neo4j and Vector Databases


• Design and implement Knowledge Graphs


• Develop enterprise search, indexing and retrieval capabilities


• Build data models, metadata and enrichment processes


• Implement event-driven and real-time data architectures


• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage and traceability


• Optimise platform performance and scalability

Key Requirements

• Strong Python and SQL


• Experience with BigQuery, Spanner and/or similar cloud data platforms


• Hands-on Neo4j / Knowledge Graph experience


• Experience with Vector Databases, Search or Indexing


• Strong understanding of data modelling and governance


• Experience supporting AI, LLM or RAG use cases

Nice to have:

• Semantic Search


• Large-scale Search platforms


• AI/LLM and RAG experience

Deadline for applications is Tuesday 8th Sept at 12pm