Data Engineer - Data Modelling


Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary:	£450 to £450 a day
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, B4 6AJ
Working pattern:	Hybrid
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	30 Oct 2026

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Summary

Data Engineer - Data Modelling

Sector: Automotive / Financial Services

Programme: NextGen DevOps

Rate: £470 per day

Location: UK Remote

IR35 status: Inside IR35

Your new company

You'll be supporting a major transformation programme within a complex automotive and financial services environment.The programme will deliver both Operations and Development services and support several significant transformation initiatives, including mainframe modernisation, integration of financial services platforms with SaaS products, and transformation of the wider data landscape.

Your new role

As a Data Engineer / Data Modelling Specialist, you'll work closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand existing processes and data requirements and translate these into effective enterprise data solutions.A key focus will be designing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models, alongside database schemas and data structures that support scalable, reliable enterprise solutions.You'll also contribute to data integration, legacy modernisation and database optimisation while working alongside architecture, engineering and development teams across the wider transformation programme.

Key responsibilities

Work with business and technical stakeholders to understand business processes and data requirements.

Translate business requirements into enterprise data solutions and database designs.

Design and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models.

Design and develop enterprise database schemas and data structures.

Build and maintain enterprise data solutions and integrations.

Optimise databases and data solutions for performance, scalability and reliability.

Support the transformation and modernisation of legacy data environments.

Contribute to data integration between enterprise applications, SaaS platforms and other systems.

Maintain appropriate standards across data quality, governance and performance.

Work alongside architecture, engineering and development teams across the wider programme.

What you'll need to succeed

Essential skills and experience

You'll need strong commercial experience across:

Enterprise data modelling and database design

Conceptual, logical and physical data modelling

Database schema design and development

Understanding complex business processes and translating requirements into data models and technical solutions

Relational database technologies, such as:

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Oracle

Building and maintaining enterprise data solutions

Data integration and transformation

Database performance and optimisation

Data quality and governance

Working directly with business stakeholders to gather and translate data requirements

Desirable skills and experience

Additional experience across the following would be advantageous:

AWS and cloud data

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Snowflake

Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Data integration and engineering

Informatica

Talend

Apache Airflow

Python for data processing and automation

Data warehouse design and optimisation

APIs and event-driven architecture

REST APIs

GraphQL

Apache Kafka

Event-driven architectures

DevOps / infrastructure

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments, including Financial Services, Government, Healthcare or Logistics, would also be beneficial.Experience supporting legacy modernisation or large-scale data transformation programmes would be particularly relevant.

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