Analytics Engineer - Looker, SQL

Analytics Engineer - Contract £310 per day, inside IR35 | Fully remote (UK) | ~6 months, extension likely My client is a major UK business, looking for an Analytics Engineer to join their data engineering function. The team is mid-transition: Qlik Sense today, with Looker being onboarded over the coming months and visualisation migrating across. The role You'll be the bridge between the data and the business. You'll take a high-level objective, work out what the underlying business problem is, dig into the data, and write the SQL procedures that produce the analytical outputs the business consumes. This isn't platform or capability building. It's applied SQL, analytical thinking, and getting answers in front of people. What you'll need Excellent SQL - this is the core of the role. ETL is done in SQL, and you'll be writing procedures to create analytical datasets BigQuery / GCP, or transferable data warehouse experience A BI and visualisation background - Qlik, Power BI, Tableau or Looker. The tool matters far less than the underlying modelling and visualisation skill An analyst's understanding of data combined with engineering discipline. Git and CI/CD are in daily use The ability to sit with a stakeholder, understand the business problem and hold the conversation Nice to have Looker or LookML, Airflow or Concourse, dbt. How you'll work You'll be given objectives rather than task lists, so this suits someone who works out what needs doing, identifies gaps, and flags blockers early. Self-starting, proactive and visible - online, at standups, asking questions. Details £310 per day, inside IR35. Fully remote, with offices all over the country available if you'd like to use them. Around 6 months initially with genuine intent to extend for the right person. One-stage interview, one hour.