Senior Data Engineer

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd
Bristol
3 weeks ago
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  • Personalised Experiences & Communications Platform
  • SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000
  • LOCATION(S): Bristol
  • HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
  • WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, currently at least two days (40%) at Bristol office

About this opportunity

A great opportunity has arisen for a Senior Data Engineer to work within the Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform to join product engineering cross‑functional teams.


Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will deliver the highest quality data capability, drawing upon your engineering expertise, while being open‑mind to the opportunities the cloud provides. You will build reusable data pipelines at scale, work with structured and unstructured data, perform feature engineering for machine learning, and curate data to provide real‑time contextualised insights to power our customers' journeys.


Using industry‑leading toolsets and evaluating exciting new technologies to design and build scalable real‑time data applications, you will span the full data lifecycle and experience using a mix of modern and traditional data platforms (Hadoop, Kafka, GCP, Azure, Teradata, SQL Server) to build capabilities with horizon‑expanding exposure to a host of wider technologies.


You will help adopt best engineering practices such as Test‑Driven Development, code reviews, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery for data pipelines, and mentor other engineers to deliver high‑quality, data‑led solutions for our bank's customers.


Qualifications

  • Coding: Experience in commercial/industry setting with Python, Java, Scala, Go, and SQL.
  • Databases & frameworks: Operational data stores, data warehouses, big data technologies, and data lakes.
  • Experience with relational and non‑relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle), relational and dimensional data structures.
  • Distributed frameworks: Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop.
  • Containerisation: Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
  • Cloud: Experience with GCP, Azure, or AWS, including cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning.
  • Additional skills (nice to have): GCP Professional Data Engineer certification, Apache Kafka certification (CCDAK), proficiency across the data lifecycle.

About working for us

We focus on ensuring inclusivity every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture, and we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are disability confident. If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes, please let us know.


Benefits

  • Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • Annual performance‑related bonus
  • Share schemes, including free shares
  • Discounted shopping
  • 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
  • Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive?


Apply today and find out more.


Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.


Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).


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