Data Platform Engineer (Contract)

This is the build-the-plumbing role. You'll stand up and run the data platform that everyone else builds on, for a large regulated organisation modernising its data estate.

What you'll do:

Build and operate the Snowflake platform on AWS, running on OpenShift.

Own CI/CD for data: deployment pipelines, environments, and the tooling that lets data engineers ship safely.

Treat infrastructure as code and keep the platform reliable, observable, and secure.

What we're looking for:

Strong Snowflake platform experience, not just querying it.

Solid AWS and container experience, ideally OpenShift or Kubernetes.

Real CI/CD experience applied to data workloads.

An infrastructure-as-code mindset and a habit of automating the boring parts.

Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.

Bonus points for experience in a regulated or financial services setting.

About hedgehog lab:

We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.

We're a certified B Corp.

We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.

The details:

Contract, outside IR35.

3 to 6 months, with strong potential to extend.

Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.

Apply below and I'll be in touch.