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Senior Data Engineer

FDM Group
Edinburgh
1 day ago
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FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Data Engineer to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Edinburgh.


Our client is seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Data Engineer in the Prudential and Analytics Platform to play a pivotal role in leading the design, development, as well as delivery of integrated software and data solutions. You will contribute to strategic initiatives by driving technical excellence across application and data engineering domains, operating at the team and occasionally, at lab level. The role blends deep technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, requiring a strong understanding of software architecture, data engineering practices, and product delivery.


Responsibilities

  • Design and develop software as well as data products ensuring they are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable, and secure
  • Utilise endorsed technologies and apply common build patterns to minimise technical debt
  • Adhere to group policies and frameworks for build, release, and governance
  • Contribute to the designing, planning, code reviews, as well as team ceremonies, understanding work through planning, to commit to achievable goals, prioritising, escalating and improving
  • Participate in technical communities to advance shared capabilities while reusing opportunities and automating repetitive manual tasks where possible
  • Promote active application custodianship by contributing to incident root-cause analysis, identifying improvements, and acting on learnings
  • Support team growth by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and undertake technical interviews such as paired programming
  • Invest in developing your own technical and agile skills while owning custodianship governance activities on technical assets
  • Manage and lead junior engineers, focusing on effective task allocation, team development, and delivery of technical outcomes


Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a Senior Software Engineer or Data Engineer
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Big Query, Composer and Microservices such as Java and Python
  • Skilled in DBT such as SQL based ETL
  • Experienced in agile delivery and automated testing
  • Exposure to Finance, such as banking and consumer and commercial products
  • Excellent knowledge in model life cycle i.E., PD, LGD, EAD, risk weigh assets


Why join us

  • Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
  • Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
  • Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
  • Annual leave and work-place pension


About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.


Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

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