Data EngineerJob Summary
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer to join the team in our London/Newcastle offices.
The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology teams across Wealth Management Europe (WME) to support the ongoing maintenance and evolution of the Data Lakehouse platform, focusing on the ingestion and modelling of new data, and the evolution of the platform itself utilising new technologies to improve performance and accuracy of the data.
What will you do?
Responsible for the development and ongoing maintenance of the Data Lakehouse platform infrastructure using the Microsoft Azure technology stack, including Databricks and Data Factory. Manage data pipelines consisting of a series of stages through which data flows (for example, from data sources or endpoints of acquisition to integration to consumption for specific use cases). These data pipelines must be created, maintained, and optimized as workloads move from development to production for specific use cases. Good understanding of SQL and PySpark to create new and modify existing Notebooks, Functions and Workflows to support efficient reporting and analytics to the business. Create, maintain, and develop Dev, UAT and Production environments ensuring consistency. Responsible for using innovative and modern tools, techniques and architectures to partially orpletely automate the mostmon, repeatable and tedious data preparation and integration tasks in order to minimize manual and error-prone processes and improve productivity. Champion for the DevOps process to ensure the latest techniques are being used and that implementation methodologies involving new or changes to existing source code or data structures follow the agreed development and release processes and that all productionised code is adequately documented and reviewed. Identify, source, stage, and model internal process improvements to automate manual processes and optimise data delivery for greater scalability, as part of the end-to-end data lifecycle. Actively engage within the team and wider business areas to foster relationships and develop thought leadership. Follow the established Agile working methodology and collaborate effectively in sprints, meetings, and standups. Be curious and knowledgeable about new data initiatives and how to address them. This includes applying their data and/or domain understanding in addressing new data requirements. Additionally, be responsible for proposing appropriate (and innovative) data ingestion, preparation, integration and operationalization techniques in optimally addressing these data requirements.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
At least two years or more of work experience in data management disciplines including data integration, modelling, optimisation and data quality, and/or other areas directly relevant to data engineering responsibilities and tasks. At least two years of experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with business stakeholders in support of a departmental and/or multi-departmental data management and analytics initiative. Strong experience with various Data Management architectures like Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Hub and the supporting processes like Data Integration,ernance, Metadata Management Strong experience in working with large, heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets using traditional data integration technologies Strong experience with popular database programming languages for relational databases (SQL, T-SQL) Knowledge of working with SQL on Hadoop tools and technologies including HIVE, Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL Data Warehouse) and others from an open-source perspective and Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks, and others from amercial vendor perspective. Adept in agile methodologies and capable of applying DevOps and increasingly DataOps principles to data pipelines to improve themunication, integration, reuse and automation of data flows between data managers and consumers across an organization Basic experience in working with dataernance/data quality and data security teams and specifically information stewards and privacy and security officers in moving data pipelines into production with appropriate data quality,ernance and security standards and certification. Ability to build quick prototypes and to translate prototypes into data products and services in a diverse ecosystem.
Nice-to-have
Knowledge of Terraform Experience with advanced analytics tools for Object-oriented/object function scripting using languages such as Python, Java, C++, Scala, R, and others.
What is in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive andmunities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to ourmunities, and achieving success that is mutual.
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities. Opportunities to work with the best in the field. Ability to make a difference and lasting impact. Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
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Job Skills
Big Data Management, Cloudputing, Database Development, Data Mining, Data Warehousing (DW), ETL Processing, Group Problem Solving, Quality Management, Requirements Analysis
Additional Job Details
Address:
12 SMITHFIELD STREET:LONDON
City:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Work hours/week:
35
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-07-01
Application Deadline:
2025-07-16
Note:Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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