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Senior Data Engineer
Job Overview
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be developing our configuration-driven data platform in Databricks, enabling non-engineers to define regulatory logic, and our Snowflake data warehouse, ensuring scalability, auditability, and fitness for client-facing regulatory use cases. You’ll be writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that follows best practices.
As a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to colleagues.
You’ll join at a critical stage as we modernise our data infrastructure, migrating from Python scripts and MySQL to Databricks and Snowflake. Our systems power regulatory reporting for major financial institutions, requiring precision, traceability, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve our configuration-driven data framework in Databricks and Snowflake warehouse.
- Mentor junior team members, fostering growth through technical leadership.
- Design, build, and optimise data pipelines using Databricks, Kafka, Python, and PySpark.
- Ensure pipelines are auditable, lineage-aware, idempotent, and resilient in regulated environments.
- Implement robust data quality controls including testing, validation, monitoring, and alerting.
- Drive performance optimisation across Spark and Snowflake workloads.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Regulatory teams to translate requirements into scalable technical designs.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and tools.
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Must-Haves
- Experience designing auditable, reproducible data pipelines in regulated or high-integrity environments using Python and PySpark.
- Ability to write and optimise complex SQL queries on large datasets.
- Strong expertise in data modelling and warehouse design.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, observability.
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms and orchestration tools.
- Comfortable translating complex regulatory requirements into technical specifications.
- Ability to work autonomously with high accountability for systems built and maintained.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Kafka or other event streaming platforms.
- Hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure experience.
- Experience building new data platforms or modernising legacy systems.
- FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background.
Why Join Us?
Work Across Disciplines
- Engage across diverse areas, broadening your skill set.
Solve Problems that Matter
- Contribute to high-impact challenges central to our business.
Flat, Visible, Collaborative Culture
- Collaborate directly with senior leaders and specialists.
- Visibility into work ensures your contributions are recognised.
A Place for Builders
- Ideal for driven individuals who enjoy driving results and taking ownership.
Perks & Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance (AXA) – covering mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access.
- Life Insurance – 4× salary (via Unum).
- Unum’s Help@Hand – GP access, medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings & discounts, mental health support, bereavement counselling, and cancer support for you, your partner, and children.
- Salary sacrifice childcare/nursery scheme (via YellowNest).
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity).
- Professional qualification sponsorship.
- Accelerated career progression based on readiness and performance.
- Increasing holiday entitlement with tenure.
- Flexible hours with core collaboration periods.
- Paid volunteering leave.
- Gym and fitness discounts.
- Bi-annual socials.
- Office snacks and drinks.
- Interest-based working groups for innovation.
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