Junior Data Engineer - Up to £45,000 Bonus London - 5 days per week in office The Opportunity An established private equity investor is continuing to build out its data capability to better support investment decisions across EMEA. As part of this growth, the firm is hiring a Junior Data Engineer to help strengthen and scale its cloud based data platform. You will join a high performing Research and Technology team that works directly with investment professionals. The team is responsible for transforming fragmented internal and market data into structured, decision ready intelligence that informs deal activity, portfolio strategy and capital deployment. This role would suit someone early in their data engineering career who enjoys building scalable solutions, automating processes and working closely with commercial stakeholders in a fast paced environment. Responsibilities<ul><li>Designing and maintaining data pipelines that ingest and consolidate data from internal systems and third party providers</li><li>Automating manual workflows and improving infrastructure scalability and reliability</li><li>Supporting the migration of legacy spreadsheet driven processes into a structured cloud environment</li><li>Building and optimising ETL processes using AWS and SQL technologies</li><li>Developing dashboards and analytical tools to surface insights across operational performance and fund deployment</li><li>Implementing data validation and governance processes to ensure accuracy and consistency</li><li>Working closely with investment, finance and asset management teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>1 to 3 years experience in data engineering or a similar technical role</li><li>Strong proficiency in SQL and Python</li><li>Exposure to AWS and modern data warehousing concepts such as Snowflake</li><li>Experience with BI tools such as Tableau is advantageous</li><li>Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline</li><li>Structured thinker with excellent attention to detail</li><li>Self starter who is comfortable working in a high expectation environment</li></ul>

Data Engineer

Data Engineering Lead Salary up to £110,000 London 3 days per week in office Overview A fast growing technology company is investing heavily in its data platform as it scales its products and machine learning capabilities. The business operates a high volume, transactional platform where data is central to product development, automation, and decision making. This is an opportunity to take technical ownership of a modern data platform, shaping how data is ingested, modelled, transformed, and consumed across the organisation. The environment values strong software engineering, pragmatic architecture, and hands on ownership of production systems. The Role We are hiring a Data Engineering Lead to act as the senior technical authority for the data platform. Reporting into senior engineering leadership, you will define the end to end technical direction of the data ecosystem while remaining a hands on individual contributor. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform architecture, and system design. You will be responsible for building durable, scalable data systems that support analytics, operational reporting, and machine learning driven product features. Rather than focusing purely on pipelines, this role is about designing long lived data systems that are reliable, observable, and fit for long term use. Key Responsibilities <ul><li>Own the data platform end to end, including ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers</li><li>Lead the design of distributed data systems integrating backend services, external APIs, event streams, and data stores</li><li>Partner with product and engineering teams to design data foundations for machine learning powered features in production</li><li>Act as the lead architect for data models and data contracts across structured and unstructured data</li><li>Set and uphold engineering standards, including documentation, architecture diagrams, and Architecture Decision Records</li><li>Design and build scalable, fault tolerant ETL and ELT pipelines with clear trade offs around latency, freshness, and cost</li><li>Remain hands on, building and maintaining core pipelines, schemas, and services in production</li><li>Define the technical roadmap for data and provide mentorship through code reviews and technical guidance</li><li>Design and implement workflow automation to reduce manual operational processes</li><li>Establish governance frameworks covering access control, lineage, observability, and data quality</li><li>Take ownership of production incidents, data quality issues, and platform cost management</li></ul>Experience and Background <ul><li>Experience as a Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, or senior Data Engineer owning complex, distributed systems</li><li>Strong software engineering background with deep experience in Python and production grade practices</li><li>Experience enabling machine learning systems in production environments rather than purely research use cases</li><li>Advanced SQL skills and experience with modern cloud data warehouses</li><li>Experience designing and operating data pipelines using tools such as dbt, Airflow, or similar frameworks</li><li>Strong experience with Git based workflows, CI CD, automated testing, and operating long lived systems</li><li>Proven ability to make sound architectural decisions balancing correctness, performance, and cost</li><li>Strong analytical skills and the ability to interrogate data directly</li></ul>Nice to Have <ul><li>Experience with BI tools like Looker</li><li>Experience building internal data platforms that enable analytics teams</li><li>Exposure to workflow automation tools</li><li>Experience designing systems handling text, documents, images, or other non tabular data</li></ul>Benefits <ul><li>Salary up to £110,000</li><li>Hybrid working with 3 days per week in the London office</li><li>Competitive holiday allowance</li><li>Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits</li><li>Enhanced parental leave</li><li>Pension scheme and life insurance</li><li>Learning and development budget</li><li>Company social events and team activities</li><li>Office perks including food and refreshments</li></ul>

Tech Lead - Data Engineering

Cameron joins our UK Perm team in our London office. He has 3 years of recruitment experience, mainly working in the data space. 

Cameron Mason

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