ClickHouse Data Engineer for Finance & Trading

Data Intellect; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Data Intellect in Belfast is building a new ClickHouse–centric data engineering practice for global financial markets. We solve complex data challenges by designing scalable pipelines, high‑performance analytics, and cloud‑native architectures that integrate with clients’ trading and risk systems.

You will join experienced consultants and engineers to shape technical direction, contribute to architecture discussions, and deliver concrete solutions on client engagements across capital markets,

Qualifications

• Previous experience using ClickHouse in production.
• Hands on experience with Go and/or Python.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Excellent understanding of distributed databases and SQL.
• Hands on experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
• Strong commercial Data Engineering experience.
• Experience designing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines.
• Experience working with high-volume or high-performance data platforms.
• Experience within Capital Markets or Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of modern data engineering principles.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills and experience working with technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing scalable data engineering solutions.
• Building high-performance data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Working with large-scale financial and time series datasets.
• Designing efficient data models and optimising analytical workloads.
• Implementing ClickHouse across client environments.
• Collaborating directly with client engineering teams to understand technical challenges and deliver solutions.
• Supporting cloud-based data platforms and distributed architectures.
• Contributing to technical design discussions and engineering best practice.
• Helping grow Data Intellect's ClickHouse capability.

Skills

ClickHouse

Go

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

SQL

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Data Intellect in Belfast is building a new ClickHouse–centric data engineering practice for global financial markets. We solve complex data challenges by designing scalable pipelines, high‑performance analytics, and cloud‑native architectures that integrate with clients’ trading and risk systems.

You will join experienced consultants and engineers to shape technical direction, contribute to architecture discussions, and deliver concrete solutions on client engagements across capital markets,