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Principal Data Engineer - Finance & Banking
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A leading global financial services organisation is investing heavily in the growth of its trading and risk technology capabilities. As part of a strategic transformation, they are building a next-generation Trading Data Lakehouse platform to support critical front-office and risk reduction initiatives across the business.
Your new role
As a Principal Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and engineering a greenfield Trading Data Lakehouse platform. Working as part of a global engineering function, you will help define the target architecture while remaining hands-on in the delivery of cloud-native data solutions.
You will be responsible for platform engineering, metadata management, data lineage, governance and data visualisation capabilities, helping to build a scalable platform that supports complex trading use cases. This is a highly visible role with significant influence over the future direction of the platform and wider team growth.
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What you'll need to succeed
- Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale Data Lakehouse or Big Data platforms
- Strong hands-on experience with Spark and cloud-native data technologies
- Expertise in data architecture, platform engineering and distributed data systems
- Experience with open table formats such as Iceberg, Delta Lake or Hudi
- Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage and data governance
- Experience delivering greenfield data platform programmes
- Financial services experience, ideally within trading, market data or risk environments
- Ability to operate independently while collaborating with global engineering teams
- Private cloud experience would be highly advantageous
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What you'll get in return
- Access to market leading technologies
- Hybrid working arrangements.
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