Pre-vetted data engineers who join your team on daily or hourly rates, with no placement fees. Nearshore on UK hours, or onshore where your data has to stay in the UK. No minimum term.
A data engineer builds and runs the systems that move, store and prepare an organisation’s data, so it can be trusted for reporting, products and AI.
On a delivery team, a data engineer typically:
Data engineers build the foundations, while data scientists analyse the data and AI engineers build features on top of it. If you need either of those, see our data scientists and AI engineers. For an overview of the software, data and AI engineers we supply, see Software, Data & AI Engineers.
Data engineers make the difference when your data isn’t arriving, isn’t trusted or isn’t ready for what the business wants to do with it.
Data engineering work varies with the platform and the business. These are some of the profiles we supply:
If you need a different mix, tell us what the work involves and we’ll match profiles to it.
One data engineer or a whole data team, for as long as the work runs. You can start part-time, for example three days a week moving to five, and scale down with two weeks notice.
Most work nearshore in Central and Eastern Europe on UK hours. Where a client’s data has to stay in the UK, or the work needs people on site or with security clearance, engineers can work onshore. For US work, engineers in LATAM work US hours.
When you hire data engineers through Brightbox, they join your team as associates. They work under your brand and your direction, and we handle the rest.
Time and materials, billed on time you’ve signed off.
No minimum headcount.
Two weeks notice to scale down, either way.
Not the months a permanent hire takes.
If someone isn’t the right fit, we replace them and carry our cost during the handover.
Everything they build is yours.
A management layer around every engagement, so you’re not the one carrying a bad fit.
Our people work under your brand, and we never approach your clients.
Profiles against your brief, usually within a day.
We’re investing in technology to keep improving how quickly and accurately we match people to your brief.
Each engagement starts from what you need running, and by when.
One data engineer or a whole data team, scaled up or down with two weeks notice.
Product companies, consultancies and systems integrators use Brightbox to add delivery capacity when the work lands.
Data engineers are on daily or hourly rates, which depend on seniority and where they work from. Ask and we’ll send a rate card, usually within hours.
Usually within days, rather than the months a permanent hire takes.
A data engineer builds the pipelines and platforms that make data reliable and available. A data scientist analyses that data and builds statistical models. An AI engineer builds product features that use AI models. If you’re not sure, tell us what you’re trying to do and we’ll suggest the right profile.
Yes. Tell us your platforms and tools and we’ll match engineers with experience in them.
We supply data engineers who join your team and work under your direction, so you keep control of your data and your platform. If you need someone to own a data project from start to finish, we can introduce a proven delivery partner from our network who takes on that responsibility.
Yes. Where data has to stay in the UK, we supply onshore associates who can work within those requirements. Tell us the requirements at the start, so we match the right people.
Yes. Where a client requires people who are onshore, on site or security-cleared, we supply UK-based associates who meet those requirements. See our security-cleared government associates.
Yes. Most work remotely, nearshore in Central and Eastern Europe on UK hours, so they’re online when your team is. Where a client needs people on site, engineers can work onshore.
Yes. There’s no minimum term, and you can scale down with two weeks notice. Engagements shorter than about six weeks rarely work, because onboarding takes too much of the time.
You do. Everything they build, including pipelines, data models and code, is yours.
We’ve worked both inside and outside IR35, and we work with a partner to help with status determinations when needed.
Send us a short brief. We’ll come back with profiles and rates, usually within a day.
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