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Senior Data Engineer

Simple Machines · London, United Kingdom

External listingfull-time2 months ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Data Engineer, where you'll be responsible for the technical direction, platform design, and architectural decision-making of modern, cloud-native data platforms. You'll work closely with clients to understand their problems and shape solutions, while also setting engineering standards and best practices across teams. This is a hands-on role that requires deep experience with Spark, modern data platforms, and cloud data services.

  • Design and build greenfield data platforms, real-time pipelines, and data products for clients.
  • Own the end-to-end architecture of modern, cloud-native data platforms, making high-impact architectural decisions.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor, translating business needs into pragmatic engineering decisions and shaping solutions.
  • If you enjoy solving hard data problems, shaping modern architectures (data mesh, data products, contracts), and delivering real outcomes — this is your lane
  • Deep experience with Spark and modern data platforms (Databricks / Snowflake)
  • Solid grasp of cloud data services (AWS or GCP)
  • Strong Python and SQL
  • Strong data modelling skills and architectural decision-making ability
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
  • Demonstrated ownership of large-scale data platform architectures
  • Comfortable balancing trade-offs between performance, cost, and complexity
  • Data testing and quality frameworks (dbt, Great Expectations, Soda)
  • Strong consulting instincts — able to challenge assumptions and guide clients toward better outcomes
  • Built and operated large-scale data pipelines in production
  • Comfortable with multiple storage technologies and formats
  • Experience in consulting or professional services environments
  • If you’re a senior data engineer who wants to build properly, think clearly, and deliver real outcomes - we should talk
  • Comfortable mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical culture
  • Strong data modelling capability and architectural judgement

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