Senior Data Engineer

Role Overview:

We are looking for a strong, hands-on, highly autonomous Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate our enterprise People Function Capability Layer. You will be instrumental in delivering a secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient service layer that integrates multiple systems across the People ecosystem.

You will play a critical role in ensuring operational excellence, data integrity, and business continuity in a cloud-native, event-driven environment. We are seeking someone with deep expertise in data engineering, data modelling, and distributed system design, with a focus on Golang, Python, AWS Cloud, and Kafka. The candidate will contribute to the design, development, deployment, and ongoing evolution of our integration and data platforms.

Key responsibilities:

• Build and lead the development of high-performance, event-driven integration pipelines, applying strong debugging and performance optimization skills to ensure resilient data flows.
• Define and enforce technical standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices across development, security and data governance.
• Design and enforce canonical data models and schemas to standardize complex organizational data domains across systems.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable, and automated software delivery.
• Drive observability and monitoring using tools such as Datadog and Grafana to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with distributed engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions delivered within agreed timelines.
• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and low-latency processing for data workloads.

Must Have Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience in Golang and Python for backend and data engineering use cases.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services – AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, VPC, EKS, ECS, IAM, CloudWatch and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MS SQL) and NoSQL stores (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Strong hands-on experience with message brokers and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and data services.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Experience building highly available, distributed systems on AWS, including containerization using Docker.
• Hands on experience building highly available distributed systems in AWS and containerization using Docker.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices including IAM, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years focused on data engineering or distributed data platforms.
• 3+ years of experience working with Golang, Python, AWS, and Kafka in production environments.

Nice to have: (Review Certifications)

AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Deve

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Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

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