Senior Data Engineer - Finance Data

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