IT & Software

Senior Data Engineer - Finance Data

Client Server

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Senior Data Engineer role you shape a modern, cloud-based data platform on AWS for a finance-focused technology team. You will design and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion workflows, integrating diverse datasets into a unified architecture. Working closely with the Data Platform Engineer, you’ll optimize databases, improve data quality and governance, and ensure reliability at scale. This hands-on position offers impact across data engineering, database management and platform delivery, with a clear opportunity to influence data-driven decisions in a FinTech environment.

Pay / Benefits
  • salary up to 120k
  • bonus
  • 25 days holiday increasing to 30
  • pension scheme (9% with 5% employee)
  • healthcare for you and your family
  • Cycle to Work scheme
Responsibilities
  • design and maintain data pipelines and ingestion frameworks
  • support migration of datasets into unified data architecture
  • collaborate on platform design, data modelling and database optimisation
  • onboard new data sources and manage PostgreSQL and time-series environments
  • improve data quality, governance, and platform reliability
  • optimise data processing workflows and scale AWS cloud data platform
Key requirements
  • experience as a Data Engineer in financial data / market data environments
  • strong SQL and Python coding skills
  • strong AWS experience (Data Lakes and S3)
  • experience building and supporting large-scale data pipelines
  • experience with PostgreSQL
  • experience with time-series data (TimescaleDB or similar)
  • experience with orchestration platforms such as Dagster or Airflow
  • collaborative with strong communication skills
  • collaborative
  • strong communication
  • team-oriented
  • Python
  • SQL
  • AWS

Reference: WJ-747_30204212

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