Principal Python Data Engineer (Architecture Programmer Developer Java Python Software Engineer Data Enterprise Engineering Developer Programmer AWS GCP Python Athena Glue Airflow Ignite JavaScript Agile Pandas NumPy SciPy Spark Dremio Apache Iceburg Iceberg PySpark MWAA Arrow DBT gRPC protobuf Snowflake TypeScript Manager Finance Trading Front Office Investment Banking Asset Manager Financial Services FX Fixed Income Equities Commodities Derivatives Hedge Fund) required by my asset management client in London.

You MUST have the following:

• Advanced ability as a Python Solutions Architect/Principal Engineer/Engineering Manager
• Leadership experience: you must have led small teams on the delivery of projects
• AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Glue)
• Java
• SQL
• Spark
• MWAA/Airflow
• Agile

The following is DESIRABLE, not essential:

• Iceberg
• DBT
• Trading, Front Office finance

Role: Principal Python Data Engineer (Architecture Programmer Developer Java Python Software Engineer Data Enterprise Engineering Developer Programmer AWS GCP Python Athena Glue Airflow Ignite JavaScript Agile Pandas NumPy SciPy Spark Dremio Apache Iceburg Iceberg PySpark MWAA Arrow DBT gRPC protobuf Snowflake TypeScript Manager Finance Trading Front Office Investment Banking Asset Manager Financial Services FX Fixed Income Equities Commodities Derivatives Hedge Fund) required by my asset management client in London. You will join a number of teams that are responsible for the core engineering of a large amount of financial trading data. The data is currently ingested into, and stored in, an AWS data lake. This is being migrated to a data mesh architecture though. You will lead a team of 4-5 engineers, in a very hands-on role, that will contribute towards this migration, working with AWS Glue, Athena, Python, Java, Iceberg, DBT, Arrow and Dremio. 20-30% of the role will be spent mentoring members of the team, architectural reviews, code reviews, implementing best practices, reporting to senior management and contributing towards technical strategy.

They have a very flexible hybrid working set up of 1-2 days/month in the office.

Salary: £125k - £155k + 15% Guaranteed Bonus + 10% Pension