Analytics Engineer – 6‑Month Contract
£400 per day (Inside IR35)
REMOTE anywhere in the UK
Start: 1st May
What You’ll Be Doing
* Designing and building clean, scalable data models for analytics, reporting, and self‑serve
* Writing highly efficient SQL to transform raw data into business‑ready datasets
* Using SQLMesh (or similar frameworks such as dbt) to orchestrate transformations
* Working with stakeholders to understand key business questions and model data accordingly
* Improving data quality, testing, documentation and governance
* Contributing to the development of a strong semantic layer to support AI/LLM adoption
* Exploring opportunities to integrate AI into analytics workflows and automation
* Ensuring data structures, metadata and context enable accurate natural‑language querying
* Understanding downstream impact – supporting analysts, engineers and business users
What We’re Looking For
* Strong SQL‑first mindset – SQL as your primary problem‑solving tool
* Proven experience with transformation frameworks (SQLMesh, dbt, or similar)
* Solid understanding of data modelling principles and trade‑offs
* Experience building models in cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.)
* Ability to design intuitive, business‑friendly datasets
* Understanding of data architecture and how layers fit together
* Curious, pragmatic, collaborative – comfortable working in a small team
* Strong communication skills and willingness to ask for support when needed
Bonus Points
* Experience designing data models to support AI/ML or LLM‑based analytics
* Interest in using AI tools to enhance developer productivity
* Exposure to semantic layers or metrics layers
* Experience with customer data
* Ability to make thoughtful, real‑world trade‑offs in data design
Why This Role Has Come About
The team is scaling up its engineering capability and investing heavily in AI‑driven analytics. They’ve brought in another contractor and are now looking for someone who can:
* Strengthen and extend existing data models
* Build a robust semantic layer
* Support AI proof‑of‑concepts
* Improve governance and testing
* Ensure analytics models are reliable, well‑documented and scalable
This role will be critical in shaping how the business uses data – both operationally and through new AI‑enabled workflows.
Interview Process
* 1‑hour interview with the Data Lead
* Skills assessment focused on SQL, modelling, and analytics engineering
* Immediate availability – interviews scheduled this week
Contract Details
* £400 per day
* Inside IR35
* 6‑month contract
* Remote
* Start: End of April / 1 May
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