▷ Only 24h Left: Senior Data Engineer – Commodities Trading– £130,000 Salary + Bonus

Saragossa

London

1 year ago

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Get stuck in immediately to a database migration usingSnowflake.This company work across various energy and commoditiesmarkets across the world. We appreciate that not everyone wants towork within Oil and Gas trading, however, part of the role of thedata team is to look at more sustainable options for trading allkinds of commodities products.You’re going to be getting involvedwith a number of newly launched data projects, with your initialproject being to work on this migration. You’ll face off with thebusiness (Heads of Desk, Traders, Analysts), understanding whatthey need, discussing solutions with the Data Science team, thenbuilding out the best solution possible, whether it be with an offthe shelf product, or building it completely from scratch usingprimarily Python and SQL.The data team has grown over the past12-18 months, with data engineering still being built out inLondon. There’s a strong opportunity to take on leadershipresponsibilities, so if management is in your sights and ambitions,you’ll be able to achieve that here.The team are using moreadvanced technology as time goes on and you’ll be able to suggestpotential tools to use. Snowflake is one of the examples of this,as it’s recently been brought into the team on suggestion of one ofthe team and is now being widely used. Alternatively, if there’s aready customised tool within AWS that you feel is a better option,then you can use that. There really is plenty of technical freedomhere.In terms of your technical experience you’ll need to haveworked in a commercial data engineering role for a few years, thisis a mid-level position. Strong Python, Snowflake and SQLexperience will be required and any experience of working withtools like Docker/Kubernetes and AWS would be a huge preference.Commodities experience/knowledge is not required but would be aplus.This is a global commodities firm with a strong history ofperformance and revenue. Your starting salary will be up to£130,000 plus a performance related bonus. Benefits includemedical, dental and life insurance, wellness programs, pension,generous parental leave and various other perks.Want to make suredata has an impact on the future of commodities trading? Get intouch.No up-to-date CV required.

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