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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** NJF Global Holdings
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Information Engineering, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Online Analytical Processing, Operational Databases, SQL Databases, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** May 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/senior-data-engineer-city-of-london-london/2773267896-2/

## About the Role

* Strong Python + SQL (essential)
 * 5+ years in data engineering / platform engineering
 * AWS experience in production data environments
 * Hands-on with Spark / Kafka / Snowflake / Databricks (or similar)
 * Experience with data lakes / lakehouse / distributed systems
 * Background in financial services, trading, or quantitative environments

## Description

* Build & evolve a large-scale Data Lakehouse (AWS)
 * Develop Python-based data pipelines for high-volume financial data
 * Design OLAP / distributed data models for analytics & trading use cases
 * Optimise performance across multi-region data platforms
 * Ensure data quality, reliability, and consistency at scale
 * Partner with quants, researchers, and traders on critical data products


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