Data Ops Engineer: Trade Surveillance & Data Integrity

TP ICAP; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

TP ICAP in Belfast seeks a Data Ops Engineer to design and maintain end-to-end data pipelines for market surveillance. You’ll implement data quality checks, govern data lineage, and work with AWS, Terraform/CDK, and analytics tools to ensure accurate, timely data delivery across platforms.

You will collaborate with analysts, developers and testers, optimise performance, and help scale data ingestion in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Strong ETL/ELT data pipeline design, build, and maintenance for financial data.
• Background in software engineering, product management or data analytics.
• Proficient in Python or Java, SQL, and data pipeline frameworks with AWS.
• Good problem-solving and collaborative skills in fast-paced settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science or related field.
• Experience in Data Ops and Data Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain end-to-end data pipelines across sources and targets.
• Implement data completeness checks, validation rules, and reconciling processes.
• Identify critical data elements and implement failover/recovery strategies.
• Build AWS infra with Terraform or CDK; write tests; monitor data quality.
• Ensure data governance and lineage across surveillance platforms.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, and testers to translate rules into specs.
• Optimize performance and costs with cloud infrastructure teams.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python/Java

SQL

Airflow/dbt/Spark

AWS ecosystem

CI/CD

Data governance

Data quality checks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Kafka/Kinesis

S3/DynamoDB

Snowflake

Grafana

Airflow

Job description

TP ICAP in Belfast seeks a Data Ops Engineer to design and maintain end-to-end data pipelines for market surveillance. You’ll implement data quality checks, govern data lineage, and work with AWS, Terraform/CDK, and analytics tools to ensure accurate, timely data delivery across platforms.

You will collaborate with analysts, developers and testers, optimise performance, and help scale data ingestion in a fast-paced financial services environment.