Senior Data Engineer (Newcastle)

Senior Data Engineers

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Office-based – 5 days per week)

Salary: £80,000 – £140,000 + 10% Annual Bonus

Join a High-Performance Financial Technology Team

They are building one of the UK's leading data engineering teams to power the next generation of financial products and investment technology. We're looking for exceptional Senior Data Engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems at scale and want to work alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry.

This is a full-time, office-based role in our Newcastle headquarters, offering the opportunity to have a significant impact on business-critical systems in a fast-paced financial environment.

What You'll Do

• Design, build and optimise scalable data platforms and pipelines.
• Develop high-performance ETL/ELT processes for large and complex datasets.
• Build reliable, resilient and secure data infrastructure.
• Work closely with software engineers, quantitative researchers and business stakeholders.
• Improve data quality, governance and observability across the platform.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality and technical excellence.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's technical direction.

Requirements

We're looking for candidates with exceptional academic and technical credentials, including:

• A minimum 2:1 degree from a leading university.
• Extensive experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar data platform engineering role.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java or Scala.
• Expert SQL knowledge and experience working with large-scale data systems.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of distributed data processing technologies such as Spark, Kafka or Flink.
• Experience designing scalable data warehouses and data lake architectures.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a high-performance, fast-moving environment.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary of £80,000–£140,000, depending on experience.
• 10% annual performance bonus.
• Opportunity to work on challenging, large-scale financial data platforms.
• Direct impact on mission-critical systems.
• Clear progression opportunities in a growing engineering organisation.
• A collaborative culture focused on technical excellence and continuous learning.

Working Arrangement

This is a fully office-based role, with attendance required five days per week at our Newcastle office.

If you're an ambitious engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems and wants to work with exceptional colleagues in a high-performance financial environment, we'd love to hear from you.