Data Engineer

NatWest Group; Manchester; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution in the UK is seeking a Data Engineer to build and optimize data solutions. You will design data pipelines, work within Agile teams, and enhance capabilities for data-driven insights. The ideal candidate has experience with ETL methods and cloud technologies like AWS and Snowflake. This remote-first position offers an opportunity to drive value for customers while collaborating with a diverse team.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data usage and dependencies.
• Experience extracting value and features from large scale data.
• Collaborative approach managing a wide range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in building data solutions and scalable data architecture.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project outcomes.
• Design high-level solutions for Group COO data.

Skills

Building pipelines for a cloud data warehouse using ETL methods

Data quality testing and cleansing

Cloud technologies (AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Apache Airflow)

Modern code development practices

Experience in a regulated environment

Strong communication skills

Job description

Join us as a Data Engineer

• You'll contribute to a strategic programme to design, develop, and implement a cloud data warehouse to enhance our capabilities for Group COO data and create reusable data assets for NatWest within one-bank architecture
• You'll design our data pipelines from a variety of sources, consolidate our data assets in the cloud, and define data products for the function while collaborating with colleagues to identify opportunities to add value
• If you're ready for a new challenge and are passionate about delivering value for customers, this could be the opportunity you're looking for

What you'll do

As a Data Engineer, you'll play a key role in driving value for our customers by building data solutions. You'll work in a team responsible for carrying out data engineering tasks to design, build, test, maintain, and optimise a scalable data architecture. You'll also carry out data extractions, transforming data to make it usable to data analysts and scientists, and loading data into data platforms.

Working in an Agile way within multi-disciplinary data and analytics teams, you'll achieve agreed project and scrum outcomes and drive the prioritisation of engineering features which support the function's objectives and key results. You'll also build automated data engineering pipelines through the removal of manual stages.

As well as this, your responsibilities will include:

• Creating high level solution designs for Group COO data
• Working closely with Data Analysts, Scientists, and Architects to design solutions which are aligned to our data strategy and are reusable assets for the organisation
• Leveraging from the data engineering framework and community within the bank, using practices that align to bank strategy and creating reusable assets and solutions
• Developing a clear understanding of data platform cost levers to build cost effective and strategic solutions
• Sourcing, ingesting, and transforming data using the most appropriate tooling and technologies for the situation, in line with our strategy

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you'll need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies and experience of extracting value and features from large scale data. You'll demonstrate strong communication skills alongside knowledge of data engineering fundamentals.

Additionally, you'll need:

• Experience building pipelines for a cloud data warehouse using ETL methods
• Data quality testing, cleansing, monitoring, warehousing, and modelling capabilities
• Skills and experience in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, SQL, and Apache Airflow
• A good knowledge of modern code development practices
• Experience working in a governed and regulatory environment and using technology change management processes
• A collaborative approach and the ability to proactively engage with, and manage a wide range of stakeholders

Hours
35

Job Posting Closing Date:
25/08/2025

Ways of Working:Remote First