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Data Engineer

£60,000 to £80,000a year

Job type
Permanent
Location
London
Posted
1w ago

Job description

Data Engineer

Location: UK (Hybrid)

Type: Permanent

Sector: Consultancy / Financial Services

Are you a Data Engineer looking to work on cutting-edge cloud data platforms that drive analytics, AI and business-critical decision-making?

We're working with a growing consultancy that specialises in delivering modern data solutions for leading financial services organisations. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-performing team where you'll be involved in designing, building and deploying scalable, cloud-first data platforms while developing your skills in a collaborative and innovative environment.

The Role

As a Data Engineer, you will:

  • Design and develop scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms.
  • Build and maintain ETL/ELT solutions to support analytics and AI initiatives.
  • Deliver clean, reliable and well-governed datasets for business and technical stakeholders.
  • Work closely with both technical and non-technical teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
  • Contribute to deployment, monitoring and optimisation of production data platforms.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud-based analytics platforms, ideally Snowflake.
  • Strong software engineering background with hands-on Python development experience.
  • Experience designing and deploying ETL/ELT data pipelines.
  • Knowledge of data modelling techniques and modern data architecture patterns, including medallion architecture.
  • Experience with data transformation tools such as dbt.
  • Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps practices and production deployments.
  • Familiarity with monitoring, observability and alerting tools.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, security and access control principles.

Desirable Experience

  • Financial services experience.
  • Distributed computing environments.
  • Streaming and low-latency data processing.
  • Containerisation and orchestration technologies.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code tooling.
  • Exposure to AI-focused technologies, semantic layers or agentic architectures

How this salary compares

We compare the midpoint of this range with the median of 38 IT adverts that come straight from employers and state a salary, and of 52 across UK tech.

23% below the IT median