Harvey Nash
Lead Data Engineer
Lead Data Engineer at Harvey Nash, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a contract role with hybrid working.
- Pay
- Not given by the employer
- Hours and contract
- Contract · Hybrid
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Closing date
- Sector
- Data Analyst
- Immediate start
Reference 642846139497980041
About the role
Lead Data Engineer | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, 2 days pw Edinburgh/Glasgow | Starting ASAP
Day Rate: DOE
About the role:
Harvey Nash's Pub Sec client is seeking an experienced AWS Data Engineer to design, develop, and support scalable data warehouse and cloud-based data solutions. The successful candidate will work within an Agile Scrum team, delivering end-to-end data engineering solutions, ETL pipelines, and analytics platforms that support business intelligence and digital applications.
You will:
- Design, build, and maintain cloud-based data warehouse and data lake solutions on AWS.
- Develop and support ETL/ELT processes for data ingestion, transformation, and integration.
- Build and optimise data pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark, and AWS services.
- Develop serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS.
- Support and enhance existing data platforms, applications, and integrations.
- Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to deliver solutions in 2-week Agile sprints.
- Create and maintain dashboards, reporting, and monitoring solutions using QuickSight, Power BI, Grafana, and ELK.
- Implement data quality, security, governance, and operational monitoring best practices.
Essential Criteria
Strong experience with AWS data and analytics services including:
- Redshift
- Glue
- S3
- Athena
- Lambda
- Step Functions
- RDS/Aurora
- DynamoDB
- DMS
- EMR
- CloudWatch
- IAM
Strong programming experience in Python and SQL.
Experience with Spark (PySpark preferred) and large-scale data processing.
Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse solutions.
Knowledge of API integration and microservices architectures.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.
Reference: 642846139497980041 · Posted 1 week ago · Closes 5 Dec 2026 · Listed via Harvey Nash
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