Senior Data Engineer

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
London
1 year ago
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Job Description

Senior Data Engineer

Central London (2-3 days a week)

Salary £90,000 plus benefits.

This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of a modern AWS data platform within a growing financial organisation. You will play a key role in shaping their data environment, strengthening engineering standards, and ensuring their data is ready for analytics and AI initiatives.

The Company They are a digital-focused financial services organisation operating across commercial banking, fintech enablement, and lending. Their technology supports a wide range of products, and they continue to invest heavily in modern data capabilities. With strong momentum and a commitment to advancing their UK data function, they offer a place where you can make meaningful technical impact.

The Role Design and maintain end to end ELT and ETL pipelines within a large scale AWS environment. Build well structured data models and curated layers to support reporting and analytics. Improve data quality, observability, governance, and overall platform reliability. Lead architectural decisions and support a review of existing workflows and pipelines. Contribute to ongoing transformation and migration projects. Provide technical guidance and mentor a junior engineer.

Your Skills and Experience Strong commercial experience working with AWS in production environments. Proficiency in Python and SQL for data processing and orchestration. Experience with Airflow for workflow management. Knowledge of cloud data warehousing, ideally Redshift. Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tooling such as Terraform and GitHub. Ability to build reliable, governed pipelines with strong data quality and lineage practices. * Experience in regulated settings or fast moving scale ups is beneficial.

What They Offer Salary of £90,000. Hybrid working with 2-3 days in the office. A comprehensive benefits package including health cover, pension, insurance, enhanced leave, and flexible bank holiday options. Opportunities to influence architectural direction within a modern data and AI function. * Clear progression as the data team continues to grow.

How to Apply If this London based Senior Data Engineer role sounds like the right next step, apply now.

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