Lead Data Systems Engineer Full Time Permanent

Lead Data Systems Engineer – Investment Management – London

A Lead Data Systems Engineer is required by a leading global Investment Management firm to join a growing team at their London office.

High quality, easily accessible data is essential for the continuing growth of the firm and is seen as critical to exceptional investment performance and an excellent service to their clients. In order to deliver this, they are centralising data architecture, data governance, data integrity and market data services across the enterprise. The ultimate aim is to deliver highly trusted critical data that is easily found and accessed.

The Lead Data Systems Engineer’s role will be to architect and deliver data governance platform solutions that enable users to access and understand the data but also to have the deepest trust in its reliability and quality. In order to achieve this effectively, you will need to work closely with Architecture teams and Data Quality teams to ensure that strategies are aligned and complementary.

The role will include:

• Platform solution delivery
• Architecture, design, implementation, deployment and support
• Working across the business to assess and qualify requirements, specifications, use-cases
• Design and code new software applications across API services, web clients etc.
• Promote the use of the tools developed across the business – hearts and minds approach
• Lead and mentor junior engineers

You will need:

• Understanding of Data usage across transactional systems, warehousing, data lakes, analytics
• AWS full stack deployment and management
• Strong background in Python, REST, JSON and OpenApi
• Oracle, Postgres, MySQL
• Data Governance and Management tools eg Collibra, Alation, Informatica
• BI software – Tableau, OBIEE, Jasper
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

This is an opportunity to join a group of dedicated professionals within a major player in the sector that are committed to individual and corporate growth. There are broad opportunities for learning and advancement, particularly as the UK operation matures.

Do you love data and have a passion for maximising the use of data to make great decisions and drive a business forward? Are you dedicated to helping ensure the right data can be accessed quickly and accurately? Basically, does this role sound like your nirvana, or as close as dammit? Then don’t hesitate; get in touch and get involved!