Data Engineer

Data Engineer / 6 month freelance contract / Fully remote (any location)

YunoJuno has partnered with a Media Company who are looking to hire a freelance Data Engineer for an upcoming 6 month contract.

We're looking for an experienced freelance Data Engineer to join our team on a 6-month contract. You'll be working directly on enhancing and maintaining the cloud-based data warehouse, helping us scale our data infrastructure, improve pipeline reliability, and expand our data collection capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain the existing GCP-based data warehouse, including schema design, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Build and manage data pipelines using Apache Airflow and Python
• Integrate new data sources, including social media APIs and web crawling pipelines
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support data needs across the organization
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and documentation across all pipelines
• Support event-level data collect ion and tracking infrastructure

Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically BigQuery
• Proficiency with Apache Airflow for pipeline orchestration
• Strong Python development skills for ETL/ELT pipeline development
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing best practices, and query optimization

Nice to Have

• Experience with web crawling and scraping at scale
• Experience integrating social media APIs (e.g., Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Meta) for data pipeline creation
• Familiarity with event-level data collection platforms such as Rudderstack or Segment
• JavaScript, Node.js/Express, and React development experience

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 6 month freelance contract

Rate: £250 per day

Location: Fully remote