Senior Software Engineer / Data Platform Engineer

Hays plc

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Shift work

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Compensation

£ 195K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

C Sharp (Programming Language)

Data as a Services

ETL

Programming Tools

Python

Microsoft SQL Server

Performance Tuning

SQL Stored Procedures

SQL Databases

Indexer

Backend

Data Pipelines

Legacy Systems

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Software/ Data Platform Engineer to help evolve a large-scale financial data platform. The environment includes both long-standing enterprise systems and modern AWS cloud services. The platform handles high-volume structured data and supports internal systems and customer-facing products.

A big part of the role involves working with large SQL Server environments, so strong SQL skills are essential. You'll help modernise core systems, improve performance and reliability, and build scalable backend and data services.

This role suits engineers who are comfortable working across legacy and modern architectures and who have strong experience designing and building reliable APIs and data services.

Requirements

Great professional experience as a Senior Software/ Data Platform Engineer in financial services.
Strong SQL Server expertise (queries, stored procedures, indexing, performance tuning)
Experience with large relational datasets
Backend development experience in Python or C#
Some experience with designing API's
Experience working in AWS environments
Experience with complex enterprise or legacy systems
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Desirable: