Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer – Leading Bank company City of London 

Our client, a market‑leading Banking company based in the City of London, is looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer on a 6 months contract to support major global financial projects. You’ll work closely with senior engineering leadership, data specialists, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver high‑impact data solutions across the business.

This is a highly collaborative role with the opportunity to shape data architecture, build modern pipelines, and contribute to large‑scale migration and regulatory data initiatives. 

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with engineers across multiple systems to understand data availability, structure, and dependencies

• Design and develop queries, scripts, and transformations to migrate data into new platforms

• Collaborate with solution architects to design migration‑day data processes for partner onboarding

• Implement robust data quality checks, validation, and reconciliation processes

• Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams on security, access control, and secrets management

Required Experience

• 4+ years’ experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend engineering with strong ownership of data pipelines

• Proven experience working in stakeholder‑heavy, cross‑functional environments

• Strong communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences

• Experience delivering financial data projects

• Advanced SQL skills

• Strong understanding of data modelling and data warehousing concepts

• Experience with workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD practices

Key Skills

• Data modelling, ETL development, Big Data

• Python, R, or similar programming languages

• AWS

• SQL & data modelling

• Azure