Data Engineer – Modern Data & AI Platforms
2 days ago
City of London
Data Engineer – Modern Data & AI Platforms London (Hybrid 2 days) | Contract/Permanent | 🌍 Global Consulting Environment Build the data foundations behind AI, automation, and real-world impact. We’re hiring a Data Engineer to join a fast-growing digital and data practice working with a major global enterprise client operating across energy, manufacturing, chemicals, infrastructure, automotive, and commodities. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll design and run the data systems that power analytics, automation, and AI-driven solutions — working alongside consultants, analysts, and data scientists in a true delivery-focused environment. No prior experience with our specific data platform is required. If you’re a strong engineer who enjoys learning new tools and solving real business problems with data, we’ll get you there. 🌟 What you’ll be doing • Designing and building robust, automated data pipelines on a modern cloud data platform, • Transforming and integrating data from multiple sources — databases, APIs, files, and unstructured formats, • Owning and improving existing data solutions: monitoring, debugging, enhancing, and scaling them, • Developing back-end logic, APIs, and data services that support analytics and AI use cases, • Preparing high-quality datasets for dashboards, advanced analytics, and machine learning, • Collaborating closely with consultants, analysts, and data scientists to deliver end-to-end solutions, • Contributing to proofs of concept, client roadmaps, and technical proposals, • Supporting data governance, security, and best practices, • 3+ years working as a Data Engineer or in a similar data-focused engineering role, • Strong Python and SQL skills, • Experience building and orchestrating data pipelines (Airflow or similar tools), • Hands-on work with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure), • Solid understanding of databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, • Experience integrating systems via APIs and back-end services, • Comfortable working with version control and CI/CD workflows, • Exposure to analytics or AI-driven solutions, • Experience working with unstructured data (text, PDFs, web data), • Familiarity with web frameworks or lightweight front ends, • Power BI, data visualisation, or analytics modelling experience, • Awareness of machine learning, LLMs, or vector databases, • Work with a global consulting organisation delivering data solutions at scale, • Exposure to enterprise-grade data and AI platforms, • A role that blends deep engineering with real business impact, • Ongoing training and support to learn new tools and technologies, • Clear progression toward Senior Data Engineer and beyond, • Data Engineers who enjoy building things that actually get used, • Engineers ready to step into a broader, more impactful role, • Professionals curious about AI, automation, and modern data platforms Apply now with your latest CV showing all your relevant experience and email your CV with daily/rate/salary expectations, availability to interview and start