Big Data Principal

Lead/Principal Data Engineer / Technical Lead– hands-on

12+ years in data engineering (Senior); 5+ years including team leadership (Lead)

Financial Services / Banking (strongly preferred)

Hybrid – to be confirmed

We are looking for a Senior / Lead Data Engineer to join the engineering organisation a multi-year banking transformation programme delivering capabilities across Accounts (Real-Time Ledger), Payments, Foreign Exchange and Client Lifecycle Management, underpinned by an Enterprise Data Platform built on Snowflake.

This is a hands-on build role. Working closely with the Enterprise Data Architect, you will turn the target-state data architecture into a production platform: standing up the platform foundations, engineering data acquisition and transformation, and implementing canonical data models and data products. You will act as the engineering counterpart to the Data Architect – implementing the design, feeding back on buildability, and setting the engineering standards others follow.

At Lead level, you will also shape and lead the data engineering team.

Platform foundations Build Snowflake environment structures – layered databases and schemas (Raw / Conformed / Consumption), environment separation (development / test