Senior Data Engineer
BlackRock, Inc.
UK
2 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£65,450.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services
Application Layers
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Computing
Software Quality
Databases
Continuous Integration
Data Validation
Data Systems
Python (Programming Language)
PostgreSQL
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Software Engineering
SQL Databases
Strategies of Testing
Management of Software Versions
Cloud Platform System
Snowflake
Git
Containerization
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Data Management
Machine Learning Operations
Terraform
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Docker
Job description
- Architect and build scalable, reliable data pipelines and platformssoftware solutions for data products, ensuring performance, quality, and long-term sustainability.
- Own data solutions end-to-end - from translating business objectives into technical designs through implementation, deployment, and production support.
- Design and implement data workflows that are reproducible, testable, and scientifically rigorous, embedding validation frameworks, monitoring, lineage, and observability into every stage.
- Enable advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases by building software solutions infrastructure that supports experimentation, versioning, and production-grade pipeline and model deployment.
- Lead architectural decisions and influence technical prioritisation, partnering closely with product and delivery teams to align engineering effort with business impact.
- Act as a technical authority within the team, elevating engineering standards and driving best practices in data management, governance, and cloud-native development.
- Engage senior stakeholders, clearly communicating complex technical trade-offs and recommendations in business-relevant terms.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product leaders to deliver high-impact solutions for institutional investors and private markets clients.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and operating scalable software systems for data processing workflows and platforms, with deep expertise in Python and SQL across databases such as Snowflake and Postgres.
- Hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or Azure), including infrastructure provisioning and automation using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
- Demonstrated ability to design production-grade systems that balance performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Experience enabling or supporting advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases in production environments.
- A rigorous, data-driven mindset - comfortable using analysis, benchmarking, and experimentation to guide technical decisions and architectural trade-offs.
- Strong understanding of data validation, testing strategies, and code quality practices, with confidence applying diverse code and data testing techniques across data and application layers.
- Ability to operate autonomously and drive technical solution design end-to-end, taking ownership of outcomes.
- Experience collaborating effectively across engineering, data science, product, and design teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-relevant language.
- A proactive, curious, and resilient mindset - motivated to explore new technologies, tackle ambiguous problems, and continuously improve systems and ways of working.
Desirable skills include:
- Experience with AI-related technologies and products; familiarity with using AI coding assistants.
- Experience working with financial market data, investment analytics, or private markets datasets.
- Experience designing and building data platformssoftware and/or data platforms in regulated or financial services environments.
- Experience supporting ML lifecycle management (model versioning, experiment tracking, model deployment pipelines); familiarity with tools such as MLflow, feature stores, or model serving frameworks.
- Experience productionising statistical or quantitative models.
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