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Senior Data Engineer — Financial Services — Contract (Remote, Brazil) Santiago Consult is a UK-based data and AI consultancy. We build data platforms, pipelines and AI systems for clients across the UK and Europe, and we're expanding our delivery capability in Brazil. We're building a network of senior contract data engineers with financial services experience, ready to bring onto client projects as they start. This is a talent pool ahead of upcoming engagements, so we want to talk to strong people now even if a project isn't live on day one. The work Financial data is unforgiving. Reconciliation has to balance, lineage has to be traceable, and "roughly right" isn't a thing. You'd be working directly with the founder on client delivery — building production pipelines where correctness and auditability matter as much as throughput. Typical engagements involve: Designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines for transactional and financial data Data modelling and transformation in dbt Warehouse architecture in BigQuery or Snowflake Integrating banking, payments, ledger or market data sources Reconciliation logic, data quality frameworks and testing Building for auditability, lineage and regulatory reporting Working to a clear technical standard, with architecture and code review from our side What we're looking for Production data engineering experience in financial services, banking, fintech, payments or insurance Strong SQL — performance tuning, window functions, complex transformations Strong Python for data engineering Solid production experience with BigQuery or Snowflake dbt in a real production environment Git and a proper branching/review workflow Experience with data that has to reconcile, and where mistakes have consequences Comfortable working in English with UK-based clients Cloud platform experience — GCP or AWS Nice to have Regulatory reporting experience Airflow or similar orchestration Terraform / infrastructure as code Streaming or real-time data (payments, fraud, transaction monitoring) Data governance or lineage tooling Exposure to UK or European financial regulation Practical details Fully remote, contract basis (PJ) Project-based work, typically several weeks to several months Good overlap with UK hours (Brazil is 3–4 hours behind, so the working day lines up well) Paid in GBP or BRL, your preference How to apply Send your CV or LinkedIn profile, and please include:
- Your day rate expectation (BRL or GBP — whichever you work in) — applications without a daily rate expectation won't be considered
- A short note on one financial-data pipeline you've built: the stack, the scale, and what made it hard
- Your availability and current commitments
- Whether you invoice as PJ
We read everything and reply either way. Idioma: Inglês (Obrigatório) Local do trabalho: Remoto