Senior Data Engineer - Finance Data
Summary
A hands-on Senior Data Engineer building and scaling a cloud-based AWS data platform for a fintech team in London. Day to day: designing data pipelines and ingestion workflows, managing PostgreSQL and time-series data, and improving data quality and governance using Python, SQL, AWS (S3/data lakes), and orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow.
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
- 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
- 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