Data Engineer

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
London, United Kingdom
Today
£70,000 – £90,000 pa

Salary

£70,000 – £90,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
30 Apr 2026 (Today)

Benefits

Competitive benefits

Senior Data Engineer

£70,000-£90,000

London (Hybrid)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing tech scale-up where data is at the heart of their product. You will play a key role in shaping their data infrastructure, enabling large-scale machine learning and real-time analytics that directly impact their customers.

THE COMPANY

They are a high-growth SaaS organisation operating in the digital advertising space. Their platform helps customers optimise performance through advanced analytics, real-time behavioural insights and machine learning. With a collaborative engineering culture and strong investment backing, they are building scalable data systems to support rapid product expansion.

THE ROLE

As a Data Engineer you will take ownership of the company's core data pipelines, transforming large-scale event data into reliable, ML-ready datasets that power real-time decisioning and analytics across the business.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

  • Design and manage data ingestion pipelines that feed into their cloud data warehouse.
  • Build and maintain pipelines that prepare data for machine learning and analytics use cases.
  • Restructure/improve existing datasets to ensure they are reliable, performant and ML-ready.
  • Work closely with Data Science and Platform Engineering to productionise models and improve data foundations.
  • Proven ability to work with high-volume event data at scale.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience in Python, SQL and cloud-based data engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, Glue and ideally Kinesis.
  • Understanding of streaming data, system performance and cost-efficient architecture.
  • A proactive mindset with the confidence to identify and solve problems independently.

BENEFITS

The successful Data Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £70,000 - £90,000 - depending on experience.
  • Competitive benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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