Data Platform Engineer - Contract
Location: Perthshire - 2 days onsite
Contract: 12 months - Outside IR35
Rate: £350-£400 per day
A well-known luxury hospitality and leisure organisation with a global reputation for excellence is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to support and evolve its modern data platform.
This is a hands-on contract role with end-to-end ownership across data engineering, analytics enablement, and platform operations.
What you'll do
Design, build, and optimise ELT/ETL pipelines into Snowflake and Oracle using SQL, Python, and modern orchestration
Own platform performance, observability, and cost optimisation (FinOps)
Deliver well-modelled, business-ready data products and certified Power BI datasets and semantic models
Implement robust data governance, quality, security, and GDPR-aligned controls
Operate the platform day-to-day: monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and incident management
Partner with business teams to turn data into trusted insight and measurable outcomesWhat we're looking for
Advanced SQL (Snowflake & Oracle) and solid Python
Experience with dbt, Airflow, ADF, Matillion or similar tools
Strong Power BI skills (dataset design, DAX optimisation, deployment pipelines)
Proven experience running production data platforms
Confident with RBAC, masking/encryption, auditability, and compliance
Proactive, collaborative, and quality-focusedIdeal for an experienced contractor looking for a long-term, outside IR35 engagement in a high-standard, consumer-facing environment.
If this interests you, please apply immediately and call Andy Weir at Cathcart Technology.
Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy