Data Engineer: Cloud Data Platform + AI Workflows

Matchtech; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible UK working (role-dependent)

Enhanced annual leave and buy/sell

Health & wellbeing support

Financial benefits (bonus schemes, 401

Family-friendly policies

Tech discounts and travel schemes

Job summary

Matchtech represents a leading insurtech client in the UK seeking Data Engineers at multiple levels to join a collaborative data team building ML and AI services for analytics and product improvement.

This role offers work on a modern cloud stack, data products, and robust data pipelines. You will collaborate with data scientists, developers, and architects in agile squads while advancing data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building scalable cloud data platforms.
• Strong programming skills in Python with Spark/Airflow.
• Extensive SQL and end-to-end data modelling experience.
• Experience with batch and real-time data integrations.
• Hands-on CI/CD with Git/Jenkins and IaC (Terraform).
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS.
• Bonus: exposure to production GenAI use cases.

Responsibilities

• Build and support data products within a modern data platform.
• Design and deliver solutions with engineering, science, and product teams.
• Develop and optimise data pipelines across the analytics platform.
• Integrate data from varied sources while ensuring data quality.
• Maintain orchestration, monitoring, reliability, and performance of data components.
• Improve engineering processes and promote best practices across the data community.
• Promote high standards in coding, testing, documentation and data practices.
• Experiment with emerging data, ML and AI technologies.
• Partner with architects on data product and platform designs.
• Work in cross-functional agile squads and support ML/GenAI infrastructure.

Skills

Databricks

Snowflake

Python

Spark

Airflow

SQL

CI/CD

Git

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GenAI

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Matchtech represents a leading insurtech client in the UK seeking Data Engineers at multiple levels to join a collaborative data team building ML and AI services for analytics and product improvement.

This role offers work on a modern cloud stack, data products, and robust data pipelines. You will collaborate with data scientists, developers, and architects in agile squads while advancing data quality and governance.