Company: Data Science Talent
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Posted: May 9th, 2026
Financial Services | 2 Days per week Onsite In Swindon | Outside IR35 - 6 mth Contract
Most data programmes inherit someone else's mess. This one is different. A leading UK financial services firm is building its Lakehouse platform from scratch in Databricks, Unity Catalogue, medallion architecture and the Data Analyst they hire now will shape the foundations everything else is built on.
If you've spent your career doing genuine data analysis work, profiling source, producing mapping documentation, pinning down what a KPI actually means when three people in a room can't agree - this is the role that uses all of .
You’ll be one of the first specialist hires into a new Data Programme team, working alongside an experienced Technical Programme Lead on delivery that feeds directly into executive‑level reporting. The programme has real momentum — tooling decisions have been made, the backlog is forming, and two priority dashboards aligned to the firm's strategic missions are already in flight.
Day one looks like this: understanding source nobody has fully documented, profiling relational databases, building data dictionaries, and working with stakeholders to translate high‑level dashboard asks into tight, technically sound specifications. Alongside that, you’ll be helping to establish Unity Catalogue as the metadata and lineage layer for the entire platform.