Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Data Platforms & Automation)

• Up to £650 per day (Inside IR35)

Are you a Software Engineer who enjoys solving complex data challenges and building scalable enterprise solutions?

We're working with a major financial services organisation seeking an experienced engineer to help deliver a strategic data archiving, search, and analytics platform. This is a highly visible programme with significant investment, offering the opportunity to work across software engineering, data engineering, automation, and infrastructure.

The Opportunity

You'll play a key role in designing and developing solutions that ingest, transform, archive, search, and analyse large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Working within a collaborative engineering environment, you'll help build scalable, automated platforms that support critical business and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable ETL and data ingestion pipelines
• Build APIs and search interfaces for enterprise data platforms
• Develop automation and self-service capabilities to streamline onboarding processes
• Create analytics and reporting solutions that provide meaningful business insights
• Contribute to the design and optimisation of underlying platform infrastructure
• Work closely with engineers, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders
• Produce high-quality, well-tested, and well-documented code
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement across the platform
• Strong experience with Python and/or PowerShell
• Front-end development experience, ideally using React
• Strong background building ETL processes and data pipelines
• Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Comfortable working across multiple technologies and disciplines
• Ansible or infrastructure automation tools
• MSSQL, Oracle, or similar database technologies
• Search and indexing platforms
• Object storage or enterprise data archiving solutions
• Power BI or data visualisation tools

Why Apply?

• Up to £650 per day (Inside IR35)
• Initial 6-month contract
• Excellent likelihood of extension
• Hybrid working model with just 2 days per week in London
• Opportunity to work on a high-profile, business-critical transformation programme
• Exposure to modern engineering, automation, and data technologies

If you're an experienced Software Engineer who enjoys building robust data-driven solutions and wants to make an impact on a large-scale enterprise platform, we'd love to hear from you.