Senior Data Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 23 April 2026
LOCATION
Cardiff
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Python Java Data Flow Apache Beam ETL SQL

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Job details

: Posted 27 March 2026 : LocationCardiff : Job type [Contract](/jobs/contract-1) : Discipline [Insurance](/jobs/insurance) , [Technology](/jobs/technology)

Job description

​Your responsibilities:

  • - Evaluating and comprehending data and information from diverse sources and producing innovative, high-quality solutions to problems that meet Business requirements and drive forward the department strategy.
  • - Complying with engineering, design and testing standards and practices, and with Admiral IT governance and architectural standards while performing in a heavily regulated environment.
  • - Acting on core engineering principles and values (accountability, transparency, consistency, quality, re-usability and an automate where possible attitude).
  • - Actively participating in Squad, Chapter and Guild ceremonies and activities.
  • - Working as part of a team, being a supportive team member with a positive attitude, engaging with and contributing to company culture and team spirit.
  • - Collaboration with all levels of seniority across IT and the wider Business.
  • - Being proactive and a self-learner, experimenting and learning from failure, and applying and sharing technical expertise at every opportunity.
  • - Being creative, inquisitive, and pushing the boundaries, improving processes at any opportunity.
  • - Taking initiative with effective decision making to enable the progression of the department strategy.
  • - Being passionate about business intelligence and data.

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Your Profile

  • - Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Senior Data Engineer having extensive experience in GCP(Google Cloud Platform) data area or any Cloud experience.
  • - Creating effective technological solutions for work with big data.
  • - Hands-on experience with Python scripting.
  • - Hands-on experience on Java.
  • - Hands-on experience on Data Flow or Apache Beam.
  • - Deep understanding of data concepts primarily inclined towards ETL.
  • - Hands-on with ETL/DWH and SQL (any RDBMS)
  • - Hands-on experience with any DB should be able to read/understand/alter stored procedures.
  • - Proven knowledge of BigQuery.
  • - Having experience in Air flow
  • - Cloud Functions specialist.
  • - Data flow expert with good experience.

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