Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer – Leading Bank company City of London Our client, a market‑leading Banking company based in the City of London, is looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer on a 6 months contract to support major global financial projects. You’ll work closely with senior engineering leadership, data specialists, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver high‑impact data solutions across the business. This is a highly collaborative role with the opportunity to shape data architecture, build modern pipelines, and contribute to large‑scale migration and regulatory data initiatives. Key Responsibilities * Partner with engineers across multiple systems to understand data availability, structure, and dependencies * Design and develop queries, scripts, and transformations to migrate data into new platforms * Collaborate with solution architects to design migration‑day data processes for partner onboarding * Implement robust data quality checks, validation, and reconciliation processes * Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams on security, access control, and secrets management Required Experience * 4+ years’ experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend engineering with strong ownership of data pipelines * Proven experience working in stakeholder‑heavy, cross‑functional environments * Strong communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences * Experience delivering financial data projects * Advanced SQL skills * Strong understanding of data modelling and data warehousing concepts * Experience with workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD practices Key Skills * Data modelling, ETL development, Big Data * Python, R, or similar programming languages * AWS * SQL & data modelling * Azure