SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
Senior Data Engineer
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Data Engineer | Up to £115,000 | Real-Time (Kafka) | Remote
Background
SR2 have been exclusively engaged by our consultancy client to support with 4 Data Engineering hires for an urgent upcoming programme. After recently securing Series B funding, they are growing quickly, and now is definitely the time to come aboard and join the journey!
You will be joining a highly-autonomous, delivery driven team to take a data platform from prototype to production ingesting real world data which feeds advanced AI capabilities.
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The role
- Designing scalable data pipelines, and taking them through to production from prototype at scale.
- Build data foundations to enable AI Engineers to integrate models and agents.
- Implement secure, high-performance production code (Python) in a regulated setting.
- Provide technical mentorship to the wider team.
What you need
- Experience building distributed data pipelines at production scale, with understanding of where they break.
- Solid Python and software engineering fundamentals.
- Data modelling, schema design and data lineage/provenance.
- Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Flink etc)
- Knowledge of Large-scale data processing and open table/Lakehouse technologies (Spark, Iceberg, Trino etc.)
- Knowledge Graphs/Graph DB Exposure. (optional)
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What's on offer
- Salary up to £115,000
- EMI Share options
- Remote UK working
- Private Medical, DIS etc.
- Access to modern AI tools and infrastructure
- A high-trust culture focused on delivery rather than bureaucracy
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