Kite Consulting Group
Founding Data Engineer
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Founding Data Platform & Evidence Engineer | Azure | London | AI-First FinTech
We’re hiring a Founding Data Platform & Evidence Engineer to join an AI-first financial markets start-up.
There is no legacy technology. No existing Azure environment. No technical debt.
You’ll be the engineer who lays the foundations that everything else is built on. This isn’t a traditional Data Engineering role. You won’t be building dashboards or analytics. You’ll build the cloud platform, market data ingestion layer and the immutable evidence pipeline that allows every published market price to be reproduced exactly as it was calculated. Think Azure infrastructure, FIX market data, event streaming, immutable pipelines and regulatory-grade engineering.
What you’ll be doing
- Build an enterprise Azure platform completely from scratch.
- Design and develop immutable market-data pipelines.
- Ingest FIX/FIXML and other real-time market data feeds.
- Build event-driven streaming architecture.
- Create regulatory-grade evidence and lineage across every data source.
- Develop replayable data pipelines so historical prices can always be reproduced.
- Work alongside another founding engineer building the pricing engine.
- Help define the engineering culture of an AI-first organisation using enterprise-grade Anthropic tooling.
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We’re looking for someone with
- Strong Azure engineering experience.
- Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud platform expertise.
- Hands-on experience with FIX/FIXML and real-time market data.
- Experience building highly regulated, reproducible or immutable data platforms.
- Financial markets, capital markets or trading experience.
- A passion for building greenfield platforms where nothing exists today.
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Why this role?
- Genuine founding engineer opportunity.
- Build an entire Azure platform from day one.
- Zero legacy systems.
- AI-first engineering environment.
- Huge ownership and technical influence.
- Work directly with the CTO.
- Modern event-driven architecture using open-source technologies.
📍 London (Moorgate) – 4 days in the office (5 days initially while the founding team comes together).
If you’re the kind of engineer who loves building platforms from a blank sheet of paper and wants to leave your fingerprints on every technical decision, I’d love to speak with you.
Apply now or send me a message for a confidential conversation.
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