Data Engineer
Data Engineer
Location: UK (Hybrid)
Type: Permanent - £60k - £80k base + benefits
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.