Senior Data Engineer - 12 months FTC

You will join one of the UK’s leading financial services companies, committed to transforming how data is engineered, managed and leveraged to support business decision-making. Our client is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality data engineering solutions. This is a highly influential role where you will work within cross-functional teams to design, build and optimise data pipelines.

You will also act as a technical expert within the wider data function, helping to standardise processes, reduce manual effort and improve the quality and reliability of data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable, robust data pipelines and data engineering solutions
• Drive automation and standardisation across data engineering processes to improve efficiency and quality
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to other engineers within the team
• Ensure best practices in testing, governance, security and data quality are consistently applied
• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality data products
• Oversee and support third-party delivery where required, ensuring standards are met
• Contribute to continuous improvement of tools, frameworks and engineering methodologies
• Support operational excellence through monitoring, optimisation and issue resolution

Essential Skills

• Extensive experience in data engineering and DataOps within a commercial, Agile environment
• Strong expertise in building and automating scalable data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms (e.g. AWS including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda or equivalents)
• Databricks experience
• Strong programming skills in SQL, Python, Spark and/or Scala
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and automation tools
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Strong understanding of data governance, testing and quality assurance practices
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and influence technical teams

Benefits

• Salary up to £76,000 + up to 20% bonus
• Hybrid working: Once a week or fortnight in the office
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell)
• Life assurance (6x annual salary)
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Ongoing training and opportunities for development

If you are interested in the role, please apply now for immediate review!