Senior Data Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 28 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£130,000 / year
CATEGORY
Fintech
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SKILLS

Python SQL AWS Airflow Terraform Spark Snowflake dbt

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Data Engineer

Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Location: London

Work Type: Hybrid (2-3 days a week in office)

Job Type: Full-time

Experience Level: Senior and Expert level

Salary: £50k - £130k

About the Role

You love shipping great data products and reliable pipelines, not just writing elegant code. You are an experienced Senior Data Engineer, who works with Python and SQL, and is comfortable designing and building data pipelines end‑to‑end. As an Engineer, you're interested in the business questions behind the data, not just the technical requirements. You feel comfortable in a fast-moving environment and are ambitious about the speed, reliability and observability of your data workflows. You care deeply about data quality, testing and documentation, and take a systematic approach to ensuring trustworthy, well-modelled datasets. You've worked on large-scale data platforms or warehouses, with proven experience handling complex data models and high‑volume datasets in production. You enjoy partnering with analysts, analytics engineers and product teams, and you're motivated by enabling others to make better decisions with data. You are comfortable with ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment, and are excited by evolving architectures and technologies. You are a team player who thrives in a humble, supportive environment, are happy to pair and help others, and are just as comfortable asking for help yourself.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience of data engineering/analytics in a regulated environment – e.g. finance, retail or healthcare
  • Hands-on experience of technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Spark, DBT or Airflow
  • Exposure to Databricks or Snowflake

What the job involves

The Data Engineering team are responsible for designing, building and running the complex data pipelines that the bank relies on. We combine skills in software engineering, data analysis, and operations and partner with teams across the company to solve varied, challenging problems. We value collaboration, pragmatism and continual learning over individual heroics. This is a chance to join [Employer hidden]’s Data Engineering team at a genuinely interesting point of scale and maturity. You’ll be building and evolving the data platforms that underpin decision-making across the entire bank — from customer behaviour and product analytics to time-critical use cases like fraud, where minutes genuinely matter. You’ll collaborate to design and build resilient data pipelines and warehouse solutions, owning their quality, reliability, and end-to-end delivery. Requirement gathering with Product teams, Analysts and business stakeholders inside and outside of the team, through pairing and peer reviewing on tasks, to developing tested, well-documented data workflows running in production. Ensuring data architecture and modelling decisions are documented and understood, taking an active part in the team's operational responsibilities. Have a voice in all our ceremonies from retrospectives, refinement sessions, architectural planning sessions through to social activities, helping to shape how we work and continuously improve our data capabilities. We take development seriously: engineers are expected to keep learning, and we actively support time spent improving skills and deepening expertise.

Salary Benchmarks

Data Engineer

Expert: £50k

Senior: £130k

Company Information

Company: [Employer hidden]

Employees: 501-1000

Industry: Fintech, B2C, Lending, Financial Services

Benefits: 2-3 days a week in the office, option to work abroad for up to 120 days a year, 25-30 days holiday, private medical insurance, free Headspace access, 16-weeks full pay for new parents.

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