Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

📍 London Bridge (Hybrid - 2 days a week in-office)
💷 Up to £90,000 + bonus & benefits

We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-impact product team shaping the future of data-driven decisioning in financial services.

You’ll help build a modern analytics and reporting platform that showcases the performance of advanced valuation models and mortgage operations products. Your work will directly enable lenders to automate more property risk decisions, driving operational efficiency and delivering a better customer experience across the mortgage journey.

This is a chance to influence technology choices, design scalable data products, and lead by example in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.

• Lead and influence technical decisions that support commercial goals
• Build and optimise data pipelines and lakehouse architecture
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and testable code
• Champion best practices through code reviews and mentorship
• Partner closely with Product, Analytics, Security, and Engineering teams
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Create data products that are stable, scalable, secure, accurate, and observable

• Experience leading teams and owning outcomes
• Strong skills in Databricks, Delta Lake, and lakehouse architectures
• Expertise in Pandas, SQL, and Py Spark
• Deep understanding of ETL and performance optimisation
• Knowledge of Azure networking (VNets, Private Endpoints, secure connectivity)
• Experience designing GDPR-compliant data architectures
• Familiarity with Power
  
  BI, Tableau, Metabase, or similar tools
• A passion for building data products that truly serve customers

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Love collaborating and mentoring others
• Constantly look for ways to raise the bar
• Take ownership in dynamic, evolving environments
• Enjoy learning new tools and technologies
• Stay focused on solving real customer problems

• Hybrid & flexible working
• 25 days’ holiday + extra days with service
• Volunteering day & Digital Detox day
• Christmas to New Year closure
• Cycle to Work & electric car schemes
• Free Calm app membership
• Enhanced parental leave & fertility treatment support
• Private medical insurance & income protection
• On-site gym (London)
• 7.5% company pension contribution
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10%
• Referral bonus up to £5,000

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.