Data Engineer

Immersum
London
1 month ago
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Data Platform Engineer - Financial services

Location:London, 1 day per week in the office

Salary range:£70,000-£80,000 + 10% bonus + benefits

Purpose:Build and maintain large, scalable Data Lakes, processes and pipelines

Tech:Python, Iceberg/ Kafka, Spark/Glue, CI/CD

Industry:Financial services / securities trading


Immersum continue to support a leading SaaS securities trading platform, who are hiring their first Data Platform Engineer to join a wider tech team of 25. You will be working on a blend of new and existing projects working with the latest tech in a greenfield large, highly scalable data lake environment.


The Company:


For the past 20+ years they have been a leading SaaS platform providing a full product suite of services to the securities trading sector. They serve in excess of 150 financial institutions and support the majority of major global banks. As they continue to grow their services to their customers they have an exciting opportunity for their Data Platform Engineer to join the company to help grow and shape this function in the long term.


The Role:

The successful candidate will work across two main areas.

  1. Working alongside their tech partner and ultimately take over the build and maintanence of their Lake house.
  2. Build and manage new and existing pipelines as new products and functions become available on the platform
  3. Be comfortable or show an interest to learn CI/CD, IaC and Infra tooling using Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins whilst automating everything with Python


Tech (experience in any listed is advantageous)

  • Python
  • Cloud: AWS
  • Lake house: Apache Spark or AWS Glue
  • Cloud Native storage: Iceberg, RDS, RedShift, Kafka
  • IaC: Terraform, Ansible
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Gitlab
  • Other platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake will be considered


You will have a fantastic opportunity to lead the Data Platform Engineering division whether you decide to take your career path in leadership or IC, both routes are equally valuable for this role.


The role will begin working extremely closely with their expert Data consultancy who are one of the leading UK based boutique / mid market businesses who have architected and designed the lake house and some pipelines but they want to bring the expertise in house ASAP.


If this looks of interest please click apply to find out more!


At this time sponsorship is not on offer.

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