Senior Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design and sustain data ingestion and transformation pipelines.

• Create dbt models in BigQuery, transitioning from raw data to downstream product and analytical models.

• Collect stakeholder requirements and establish clear business definitions.

• Ensure data accessibility for internal applications and services.

• Implement automated testing and data quality assessments.

• Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot failures, and enhance reliability.

• Contribute to cloud infrastructure, access management, and CI/CD processes.

• Safeguard customer data securely within an FCA-regulated environment.

• Deliver independently while collaborating with the Lead Data Engineer on complex tasks.

• Review code and promote best engineering practices.

• Work alongside product managers, software engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

• Report to the Head of Data.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in SQL, Python, BigQuery, and dbt.

• Practical experience with GCP.

• Understanding of modern data architecture patterns.

• Proven experience in constructing production data pipelines and well-organized data models.

• Familiarity with AI coding tools such as Claude Code and analytics agents.

• Experience with containerized workloads (Docker) and job orchestration.

• Strong understanding of engineering principles with a focus on writing maintainable and tested code.

• Solid background in Agile methodologies and using Git for version control.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Background in fintech or regulated financial services (desirable).

• Experience with AI/LLM infrastructure, including AI model evaluations (desirable).

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, streaming, or near-real-time ML pipelines (desirable).

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and managed ELT platforms (desirable).

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first working arrangement with the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 22 days per year.

• 25 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service).

• Half-day off for your birthday and a day off for moving house.

• Pension plan through People’s Pension.

• Wellness program offered by Able Futures along with subsidized private medical insurance.

• Coverage for critical illness and death in service benefits.

• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

• Compassionate leave and long-service awards.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.