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Data Engineering Lead

London, UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-11 → 2026-08-09

Core

Lead data acquisition function by defining ingestion strategy and building Azure-based data pipelines for Trading, Risk, Finance, and Operations.

Role type

Senior Data Engineering Lead

Builds

Azure-based data pipelines and platform solutions

Domain

Financial services / Energy trading

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Azure data services (ADLS, ADF, Databricks, Synapse, Event Hub/Kafka), Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark, data modeling, metadata and lineage tooling, performance & cost optimization, CI/CD, test automation

Preferred skills

Azure Data Engineer or Databricks certifications, experience with ETRM/Endur, market data (ICE, Platts, Bloomberg), SAP

Technologies

Azure, ADLS, ADF, Databricks, Synapse, Event Hub, Kafka, Python, SQL, Spark, PySpark, SAP

Responsibilities

Own ingestion strategy and define scalable batch/streaming data patterns; Design and deliver Azure-based data pipelines and platform solutions; Standardize connectors, schemas, controls, CI/CD, IaC, and automated testing; Lead onboarding of enterprise and market data sources with SLAs and observability; Act as domain Data Manager for lineage, metadata, quality, access, and master data ownership; Ensure compliance with data lifecycle, audit, records management, and governance standards; Manage capacity planning, skills development, and vendor contributions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership

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