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Retained Recruitment for Data Engineers

Data Engineers build and maintain the pipelines, warehouses, and infrastructure that make data available, reliable, and queryable across an organisation. We find the professionals your team needs through dedicated retained search — not job boards.

Retained Only 21–35 Day Placement 90-Day Guarantee $110,000 – $175,000
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What Does a Data Engineer Do?

Building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, designing and managing data warehouses and lakes (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift), implementing data quality monitoring, optimising query performance, collaborating with analysts and data scientists on data modelling, and managing data infrastructure as code.

What We Screen For

Strong SQL, Python or Scala, experience with at least one modern cloud data platform, and familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Prefect, etc.). Experience designing schemas for analytical workloads and building pipelines that handle real-world data quality issues differentiates strong from adequate candidates.

💡 Hiring Insight

Data engineers with dbt experience and a genuine understanding of dimensional modelling are in extremely high demand. If your stack includes Snowflake or Databricks, be specific about that in your brief — it opens a more targeted passive candidate search.

Typical Compensation
$110,000 – $175,000
Real-time streaming experience (Kafka, Flink) and deep cloud data warehouse expertise command the top of this range.
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Analytics EngineerData Platform EngineerETL EngineerData Infrastructure Engineer

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Recruiting a Data Engineer — FAQ

Most Data Engineer searches through our retained model are completed within 21 to 35 business days. Data engineers with dbt experience and a genuine understanding of dimensional modelling are in extremely high demand. If your stack includes Snowflake or Databricks, be specific about that in your brief — it opens a more targeted passive candidate search. We provide a realistic timeline at the start of every engagement.
Strong SQL, Python or Scala, experience with at least one modern cloud data platform, and familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Prefect, etc.). Experience designing schemas for analytical workloads and building pipelines that handle real-world data quality issues differentiates strong from adequate candidates.
The best Data Engineers are almost always employed and not browsing job boards. Data engineers with dbt experience and a genuine understanding of dimensional modelling are in extremely high demand. If your stack includes Snowflake or Databricks, be specific about that in your brief — it opens a more targeted passive candidate search. A retained search means one dedicated recruiter works your role exclusively — conducting passive candidate outreach, pre-screening technically, and presenting only candidates who genuinely match your brief.
Every permanent retained placement includes a 90-day guarantee. If the placed professional departs or is released within 90 days for reasons covered under our guarantee terms, we conduct a full replacement search at no additional fee.
Compensation for Data Engineer roles typically ranges from $110,000 – $175,000. Real-time streaming experience (Kafka, Flink) and deep cloud data warehouse expertise command the top of this range. We include real-time compensation benchmarking in every retained search.
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