Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Remote | UK or EU timezone preferred

This is an opportunity to build high-impact pipelines, implement real-time streaming solutions, and collaborate cross-functionally across engineering, product, and analytics teams.

About the Role

As a Data Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and maintaining robust data pipelines, streamlining data ingestion from multiple sources, and building scalable warehousing and lakehouse solutions. You'll also be involved in shaping the platform's event-driven architecture and implementing observability best practices to ensure reliability and traceability.

What You'll Do

Design and build scalable data pipelines (ETL / ELT) for ingestion, transformation, and loading from a wide variety of structured and unstructured sources

Develop solutions for real-time and event-driven data processing using modern streaming frameworks

Build and maintain data warehouses and data lakes to support business intelligence and analytics use cases

Work closely with engineering and product teams to gather requirements and translate them into data architecture and flows

Implement observability, logging, and monitoring strategies to maintain performance, reliability, and traceability

Improve developer and stakeholder experience through automation and tooling

Document systems and data flows with clarity and precision

What You'll Bring

5+ years in a Data Engineering or Software Engineering role with strong data focus

Proficiency in Python and SQL , including performance tuning and data model design

Hands-on experience with AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) and Snowflake

Familiarity with orchestration tools like Airflow , AWS Step Functions , or similar

Experience with distributed data processing (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Flink) and event-driven architectures

Strong understanding of data observability and pipeline reliability principles

Clear communicator with strong documentation and diagramming skills

Bonus Points For

Experience with AWS Glue , DBT , or similar transformation tools

API development for data serving and integration

Hands-on knowledge of serverless data processing and pipeline-as-code

Monitoring with tools like Honeycomb , CloudWatch , Datadog , or OpenTelemetry

You'll Thrive If You Are

Someone who prefers momentum over perfection , building small wins that lead to big impact

Always questioning the status quo and suggesting ways to improve systems

Motivated to reduce friction and resolve technical debt

Collaborative, empathetic, and driven to create value for customers and colleagues alike

If you're passionate about high-performance data systems, working cross-functionally, and contributing to a modern, scalable platform this could be the perfect fit.

If you would like to apply to this role via the link below. Or reach out to Ryan Quinn directly on LinkedIN.