Senior Data Engineer

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Leeds
4 days ago
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Senior Data Engineer

£65,000 - £75,000

Manchester or Leeds (Hybrid)

This is an opportunity to join a growing, modern banking organisation that is investing heavily in its data platform as it scales. You will have a real impact on how data is engineered, governed and made ready for analytics and AI across the business.

THE COMPANY

They are a UK-licensed banking organisation offering commercial banking, SME lending and financial infrastructure to a wide network of fintech clients.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will join the Data and AI function and take ownership of core data engineering work while shaping best practices and supporting the wider team.

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

  • Designing and building scalable ELT and ETL pipelines across a cloud environment.
  • Developing curated data models to support analytics, reporting and operational use cases.
  • Improving performance, cost efficiency and reliability of the cloud data warehouse.
  • Embedding data quality, observability and governance controls.
  • Providing guidance and mentorship to other data engineers

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

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

  • Hands-on experience with AWS cloud data technologies such as Redshift, Glue, S3, Lambda or IAM.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python for data processing and orchestration tools such as Airflow
  • Experience with modern modelling approaches and tooling such as dbt.
  • Practical experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices

BENEFITS

The successful Senior Data Engineer will receive the following benefits:

  • Salary between £65,000 - £75,000 - depending on experience
  • Benefits - Hybrid working (2 days in office a week), private health plan, life assurance and more.

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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