Interim Lead Data Engineer

  • Gofractional
  • 26/07/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications SQL Python

Job Description

Contract Details
  • 6 month contract to start ASAP
  • Day rate up to £450
  • 1+ day a week in office (Stratford, London)
Who You Are
  • We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities
  • Candidates must be able to commute to Stratford once a week
What the Job Involves
  • Be a technical lead for key initiatives, act as a technical authority and knowledge source for the wider team, providing mentorship to help others grow their technical capabilities
  • Work in collaboration with Product and Project Managers, Architects, etc to identify requirements
  • Transition high level designs to delivery, by working closely with solution architects and supporting key transition activities
  • Provide significant contribution to test strategies and plans as determined by the project or initiative
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for scientific teams, translating research workflows and data requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Design and implement complex cloud solutions for scientific workloads, staying current with research-focused services
  • Apply SRE and DevOps best practices, implementing automation and CI/CD pipelines to reduce toil and improve reliability
Required Skills & Experience
  • Experienced with AWS and hybrid cloud architecture
  • Experienced with Infrastructure as Code, Python, R, CI/CD and Linux
  • Experience of cloud-native architecture and cloud services, various SQL and noSQL databases, as well as messaging queues