Senior Data Engineer

Immersum
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Senior Data Engineer - Financial services

Location: London - 2x per month

Salary range: £75,000-£85,000 + 10% bonus + benefits

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

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

Industry: Financial services / securities trading


Immersum continue to support a leading SaaS securities trading platform, who are hiring a Data 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 Engineer to join the company to help grow and shape this function in the long term.


The Role:

The successful candidate will work across these areas:

  • Owning the build and maintenance of their Lake house and being the 'go-to' Data person in the business.
  • Working with stakeholders from across the business showing the possibilities that Data provides.
  • Build and manage new and existing pipelines as new products and functions become available on the platform
  • 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 Engineering division whether you decide to take your career path in leadership or IC, both routes are equally valuable for this role.


You will be joining at a time when Data is in its infancy and helping to scale and growth the Data platform and processes to better serve the business. You will be working with stakeholders across the business who are experts in their fields and you will be supporting them as the Data expert.


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


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