Senior Data Engineer | Commodities & Energy Trading | Greenfield Next-Gen Lakehouse | Up to £110K + Bonus + Benefits

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Senior Data Engineer | Commodities & Energy Trading | Greenfield Next-Gen Lakehouse | Up to £110K + Bonus + Benefits


Data Engineer required for an Energy and commodities trading house, which is one of the worlds largest and most diverse general trading companies. Working with different types of commodities and a fast growing business.


Senior Data Engineer needed for the core engineering team. As a senior member of the Data Engineering team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering scalable data solutions that support both day-to-day operations and long-term business growth. Focusing on building and maintaining their data platform’s. In this hands on role, you’ll guide a small team of data engineers and help shape a data platform that’s reliable, easy to use, and fit for everything from day-to-day business decisions to regulatory reporting.


As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be pivotal and help guide the build a modern, next-generation core engineering platform—a greenfield enterprise foundation that will sit at the centre of all future initiatives. This platform will act as the gateway for business and trading teams, giving them access to centralised, enterprise-grade capabilities that enable faster, smarter, and more efficient product development.


In this Senior Data Engineer role, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining modern lakehouse-based data platforms. Working closely with the Head of Core Engineering and teams across the business. You’ll help shape the organisation’s data strategy and ensure the platform aligns with long-term objectives.


In this Senior Data Engineering role, you’ll design, develop, and maintain data platforms using technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse/Fabric, and PySpark, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of all data systems. As the Senior Data Engineer your role will be to include establishing and championing best practices for data engineering while creating development environments that support efficient and reliable data processing.


🔍 Key Responsibilities of the Senior Data Engineer:

  • Solid grasp of modern data engineering concepts and workflows.
  • Strong Databricks experience
  • Familiarity with Azure and related DevOps tools.
  • Strong Python programming capability.
  • Knowledge of data orchestration, pipeline development, and data modelling.
  • Background in connecting data platforms with visualisation tools like Power BI and Tableau.


💼 Details for the Senior Data Engineer:

  • Salary: Up to £110,000 per annum + Bonus & Benefits
  • Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days in the office per week)


If you’re looking to be part of a one of the leading energy and commodities trading companies, working with the core engineering department and building and maintaining data platforms, we’d love to hear from you.


Senior Data Engineer | Commodities & Energy Trading | Greenfield Next-Gen Lakehouse | Up to £110K + Bonus + Benefits

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