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Senior Data Engineer – Leading FinTech | City of London | Remote

Our client, a market‑leading FinTech based in the City of London, is looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer to support major global financial projects. You’ll work closely with senior engineering leadership, data specialists, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver high‑impact data solutions across the business.

This is a highly collaborative role with the opportunity to shape data architecture, build modern pipelines, and contribute to large‑scale migration and regulatory data initiatives. The position offers full remote flexibility and an excellent benefits package.

Key Responsibilities

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Partner with engineers across multiple systems to understand data availability, structure, and dependencies

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Design and develop queries, scripts, and transformations to migrate data into new platforms

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Collaborate with solution architects to design migration‑day data processes for partner onboarding

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Build and maintain ETL pipelines and workflow automation using Snowflake and Apache Airflow

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Implement robust data quality checks, validation, and reconciliation processes

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Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams on security, access control, and secrets management

Required Experience

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4+ years’ experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend engineering with strong ownership of data pipelines

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Proven experience working in stakeholder‑heavy, cross‑functional environments

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Strong communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences

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Experience delivering financial data projects

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Advanced SQL skills

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Strong understanding of data modelling and data warehousing concepts

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Experience with workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD practices

Key Skills

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Data modelling, ETL development, Big Data

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Python, Java, or similar programming languages

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AWS

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SQL & data modelling

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Kafka, Kinesis, or Pulsar

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Terraform and AWS infrastructure tooling

What’s on Offer

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Fully remote working

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Excellent benefits package

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Opportunity to work on global, high‑impact financial data projects

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Modern tech stack and strong engineering culture

Please apply for this excellent role with latest CV

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