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Date:5 Aug 2025
Location:Edinburgh, GB
Company:Royal London Group
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Contract Type:Permanent
Working style:Hybrid 50% home/office based
Overview:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Core Data Engineering team in our Data & AI Office. The successful candidate can be based at our Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Alderley Edge office locations, offering a hybrid working model. This role involves managing data and technical assets to support analytics, data science, and machine learning projects that drive business insights and decision-making.
About the role:
- The Data Engineers in the Core Data Engineering Team work collaboratively with their peers in the wider team - the Data Modelling and QA Testing teams, to transform raw data into modelled, curated data assets for use by stakeholders in teams performing BI, analytics, and data science initiatives.
- The Senior Data Engineer will be expected to engage with stakeholders to identify new opportunities, design cloud-based data pipelines and data solutions iteratively, deploying data pipelines using CI/CD practices.
- You will at times represent the team in aligning to multiple projects and act as a subject matter expert in data engineering.
About you:
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, SQL, and PySpark.
- Awareness of working with and populating logical and physical data models.
- Strong knowledge of Data Engineering including Data Lakes and Warehouses, experience of Lakehouse and Medallion Data architectures.
- Proficiency with cloud technologies like Databricks, Azure Data Factory and/or Snowflake (or similar Data Engineering platforms).
- Strong emphasis on Data Integrity, Accuracy, and Reconciliation principles.
- Experience of working in a controlled development environment employing relevant software engineering principles, Software Development Lifecycles (SDLC), project leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management are also advantageous.
If you think you would be a great fit for our team at Royal London but don’t meet all the requirements of the role, please get in touch as your application will still be considered.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services.
OurPeople Promiseto our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here -Our Benefits.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging
We’re anInclusiveemployer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognized and respected – whatever their background.
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