Data Engineer

City + Capital
London
2 weeks ago
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City & Capital are currently working with one of the UK's most dynamic and fast-growing specialist property finance lenders who are renowned for their innovation and tailored products to suit the needs of a broad range of professional borrowers, such as property developers and investors.

Our client currently offers a range of property-backed loans to cover bridging finance, development exits, commercial mortgages and buy to let. Due to success to date, the lender has now doubled the size of their UK loan book and team 6 times in the last 6 years, with plans to achieve this for a 7th time across the coming period.

Due to these increasing levels of high activity, they are generating more and more customer and performance data than ever before and are embarking on a key project to best manage & utilise this. An agile and robust data management and utilisation plan will be key to the attainment of this.

Our client is therefore seeking an individual who will play an integral role in building & maintaining the businesses core data infrastructure & to deliver on the demands as outlined below.

You will work closely with the lenders Chief Mortgage Officer & Senior Data Lead within the role. This is also a role that comes with plenty of progression potential for those that are successful in the role.

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