IT & Software

VP Data Engineer

McGregor Boyall

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As VP Data Engineer, you will shape data infrastructure for a global investment bank. You’ll build scalable data pipelines and Snowflake-based solutions, collaborating with Market Data, Quant and Risk teams to support analytics, VaR and stress testing. You drive reliable, auditable data foundations for large-scale financial datasets, enabling risk-aware decision making across the business. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and risk analytics, offering impact across critical finance domains and cross-functional collaboration.

Pay / Benefits
  • hybrid work model
  • competitive salary + bonus
  • London location
  • permanent role
Responsibilities
  • Build and enhance scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
  • Develop Python ETL/ELT pipelines and complex SQL models
  • Design and optimise Snowflake data solutions
  • Integrate and manage large-scale financial and historical data
  • Identify and resolve data quality and data integrity issues
  • Work closely with Data, Quant, Market Data and Risk teams
  • Ensure data solutions are scalable, reliable and auditable
Key requirements
  • Proven experience in a Data Engineering / Data Development role
  • Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake
  • Strong AWS, Python and SQL skills
  • Experience working with large-scale financial, market or time-series data
  • Exposure to market data, market risk or risk analytics highly beneficial
  • Understanding of VaR, SVaR, sensitivities or stress testing advantageous
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • communication
  • stakeholder management
  • problem-solving
  • Snowflake
  • AWS
  • Python

Reference: WJ-747_30250590

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