Position: Junior Data Engineer (Real Estate)

Location: London

Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

Capstone have partnered with a leading international real estate investment firm that focuses on logistics and industrial assets across Europe. They are looking to hire an exceptional Junior Data Engineer to join their Research and Strategy Team.

Position Overview

The Junior Data Engineer will work closely with the private equity firm partners, operating as an extension of their deal teams to craft investment thesis, uncover trends and themes; evaluate investment opportunities across EMEA. They are seeking a Data Engineer to create and manage the technological part of data infrastructure, who is forward-thinking, analytical, passionate about investment and real estate, and thrive in a team oriented, collaborative environment.

Primary Responsibility

• Data mining and assembling large, complex sets of data from external and internal sources, including managing data feeds through APIs and scripting

• Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes

• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies, participate in data migration projects

• Building analytical tools (i.e leveraging Tableau) to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and fund capital deployment

• Ensure data quality and accuracy by implementing data quality checks, and data governance processes

Secondary Responsibility

• Synthesizing information and translating it into key insights that support investment decision making

• Assisting Research in maintaining strategic models and updating presentations, as well as supporting Investment teams with ad-hoc deal-related requests and presentations.

• Actively contributing to various projects and activities within the research team as a committed team player.

Requirements & Skills

• Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering / mathematical / analytical background

• 1-2 Years experience as a data engineer or in a similar role

• Proficiency in programming and data engineering tools, including SQL, Python/R

• Experience with Geospatial tools such as QGIS

• Experience with BI tools such as Tableau

• Structured and Critical Thinking & Analytical: breaks down complex problems and solves them in creative ways is a must

• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, understanding of Snowflake, AWS etc.

• Understanding of business requirements and spotting opportunities to innovate. Willingness to step out of comfort zone and learn modern data engineering practices and trends.

• Impeccable attention to detail

• Self-starter with ability to multi-task and efficiently manage time and workload

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity to join a leading, international real estate investment fund, please contact Sam Lee on or email