118 118 Money
Data System Engineer
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About 118 118 Money
At 118 118 Money, we are dedicated to helping Britain achieve financial fitness. In 2023, we proudly relaunched the iconic 118 118 twins, reaffirming our commitment to improving the financial health of individuals across the nation. Our loans and credit cards are designed specifically for those often overlooked by mainstream lenders, empowering over 800,000 customers on their journey to better financial well-being.
Our vision is to champion financial fitness throughout Britain by offering accessible products, valuable resources, and unwavering support. We are on a mission to provide fair and transparent credit solutions that promote financial well-being for all.
With an impressive 4.8 Trustpilot rating, we take pride in being an approachable lender, ready to provide clear financial support. If you’re inspired by what you’ve read and want to make a real difference in people's lives, keep reading — your next opportunity to contribute to our mission could be just a few clicks away!
What you’ll do
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Systems Engineer to help design, implement and evolve our data platforms. You will work across transactional databases, data integration and analytical platforms, ensuring that our systems are scalable, reliable, secure and fit for business needs. As a member of the data technology team, you will play a key role in driving the architecture and operation of our business-critical financial database systems.
This role is ideal for an engineer who has a solid understanding of data systems architecture, hands-on experience with modernisation of complex database platforms and is passionate about leveraging technology to drive business success.
Key responsibilities
Design and Architecture:
- Design new scalable, reliable and secure database solutions across a range of technologies including PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Redis and SQL Server.
- Modernise business-critical financial OLTP SQL Server datastores.
- Design reliable data integration solutions, including CDC, replication and data synchronisation between transactional systems and analytical platforms such as Snowflake.
- Act as a technical authority for data platform technologies, working with engineering teams to make pragmatic technology choices and establish engineering standards.
Implementation:
- Support the deployment of AWS RDS, DynamoDB and other database technologies, ensuring that all databases are optimised for performance, data integrity, availability and scalability.
- Operate production systems including incident response, performance analysis, capacity planning, resilience improvements and operational automation.
- Lead migrations of MS SQL Server on EC2 to AWS RDS (or similar), including planning, data transfer and validation.
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Optimisation and Performance Tuning:
- Analyse database performance and implement tuning strategies to ensure optimal response times and resource utilisation.
- Work closely with software teams to optimize SQL queries, indexing, and database structure.
Security and Compliance:
- Ensure database systems comply with industry regulations and security standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR).
- Implement encryption, access controls, and auditing for sensitive data stored in the cloud.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in relational database design, implementation and support, including experience designing, implementing, and managing SQL Server on AWS RDS
- 2+ years of experience in reliable data integration patterns, including CDC, replication and data pipelines.
- Proven track record in leading database migrations to cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Experience of modern engineering practices including software development, pipelines, source control and infrastructure-as-code.
- Deep understanding of the architectural trade-offs involved in designing modern data systems, including data modelling, consistency, scalability, resilience and performance.
- Real-world experience with the specification, design, implementation and support of multiple database technologies.
- A solid understanding of core AWS data offerings, particularly: RDS for SQL Server, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticache, S3, OpenSearch and Athena.
- Expertise in query optimization, indexing strategies and performance tuning.
- Demonstrable skills in database security best practices.
- Be comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous business and technical problems through to implementation.
- Sound engineering judgement, balancing performance, scalability, reliability, security, operational complexity and cost.
- Be pragmatic and outcome-focused, with a bias towards automation and continual improvement.
- Ability to communicate technical decisions effectively with software engineers, data specialists and business stakeholders.
What's in it for you?
- A competitive salary.
- Flexible, hybrid working opportunities.
- Company bonus scheme - if the business does well, you should get rewarded for your hard work.
- 25 days' annual leave, (plus bank holidays) increasing to 27 after two years service and 30 after five.
- Company pension scheme – we provide an enhanced pension scheme with generous employer contributions to set you up for the future which includes life cover of 4x your base salary.
- Eye test – you can claim a freebie each year, or if your needs change.
- Employee Assistance Programme - we offer membership to a recognised scheme to support you and your wellbeing.
- A strong ethos of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Wide business exposure, in terms of business disciplines, projects and stakeholders.
- Direct contribution to business transformation and growth.
- Huge learning and career progression opportunities.
- Being valued as an individual from our team.
- Full training, support and mentoring to develop a successful career in financial services.
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Following your application, we will want to learn more about you, your motivations, experiences, and values. In turn, you get to learn about our business, our culture, the role and what we can offer you.
If you think you’d be great for the role, but don’t necessarily tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, so apply today and take the first step towards an exciting future!
Equal Opportunity Employer
At 118 118 Money we are passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to being representative of different cultures, background, lifestyles, and groups, where everyone has an equal chance to succeed. It is our policy to treat everyone fairly and to ensure no one is disadvantaged or receives less favourable treatment. We recognise that everyone has different needs and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are more than happy to have a conversation about it.
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Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.
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