Senior DataOps Engineer

Senior Data Ops Engineer – Coventry, UK

You will join one of the UK’s leading financial services companies, who have built their success by putting people at the heart of their organisation. My client is looking for a Senior Data Ops Engineer to play a key role in the delivery, automation, and operational excellence of enterprise‑grade data platforms.

• Design, develop, and automate scalable, resilient data pipelines using modern data engineering and Data Ops practices.
• Act as a CI/CD subject matter expert for data engineering workloads, enabling repeatable, low‑risk, and high‑quality deployments.
• Champion operational excellence, observability, monitoring, and automation across data platforms.
• Continuously challenge and improve tools, processes, standards, and delivery approaches.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assurance across data engineering solutions.
• Conduct design, code, and test reviews to ensure adherence to agreed standards and best practices.
• Support production data solutions, including occasional out‑of‑hours support where required.
• Strong experience developing and automating scalable data pipelines in a finance‑related data context with a Data Ops/Dev Ops mindset.
• Demonstrable expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring systems to ensure scalable, reliable data workflows.
• Experience with AWS data tooling such as S3/Glue/Redshift/Sage Maker (or relevant experience in another cloud technology).
• Familiarity with Docker/ec2, Terraform and CI/CD platform (Git Hub Actions & Admin).
• Strong data‑related programming skills: SQL/Python/Spark/Scala.
• Leadership experience: mentoring colleagues, conducting code reviews, leading technical delivery teams.

• Salary up to £70,000 + up to 20% bonus.
• Hybrid working: 2 to 3 days a week in the office.
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell).
• Life assurance (6× annual salary).
• Personal pension with matched contributions.
• Ongoing training and opportunities for development.

Mid‑Senior level

Full-time

Information Technology

Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, Banking

If you are interested in the role, please apply now for immediate review.