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SalaryLead Software Engineer - Chief Data Office
Hybrid working model: - 2-days per week in office
Salary - up to £160k basic + good bonus + benefits
Overview
The Data Office team at a trillion dollar fund manager is playing a key role in helping build the future of financial services. You will be an individual contributor on the Analytics and Data Platform engineering team responsible for architecting, building, testing, and maintaining the data platform.
You will be responsible for:
- Contributing to the platform’s architectural design
- Development and testing of the integration, modelling, data persistence and querying tools and analytical systems
- Data pipeline implementation, maintenance and testing
- Metadata management processes and tools
- Monitoring the overall performance and stability of the pipelines
- Implementing data curation, metadata management and data quality tooling
- Engaging with our business and technology partners to ensure that the platform fully meets the firm’s needs
Preferred Technical experience/skills
- 10+ years of experience working as a Python/Java developer.
- Strong understanding of AWS ecosystems like Lambdas, step functions and ECS services.
- Experience with data stack technologies, such as Apache Iceberg & Spark. Exposure to Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, DBT.
- Expertise in data analysis with exposure to data services (such as Glue, Lake Formation, EMR, EventBridge, Athena, etc.) & metadata management tools (such as Amundsen, Atlas, DataHub, OpenDataDiscovery, Marquez, etc.),
- Experience on RDBMS like PostgreSQL would be a plus.
- Experience building modern enterprise-wide data and analytics systems in a financial services organisation with an understanding of the asset management business and/or financial markets
Lead Skills
- Proven experience of leading small to mid-size team of engineers.
- Responsible for growth, learning and mentorship of the team.
- Experience in managing short and long term product / requirement roadmaps.
- Experience with Agile Scrum model would be a plus.
