Data Platform Engineer - AI-Native & Snowflake

Xelix; Royal Borough of Greenwich; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual leave

Hybrid work

Private medical & dental

Parental leave

Learning budget

Carbon-neutral

Team socials

Job summary

Xelix in London is hiring a Data Engineer to join our new BI / Data team. You will build the data platform from the ground up: pipelines, data lake and Snowflake warehouse, enabling analytics and AI-driven insights.

You will work closely with the Platform Team to bring data together for analytics, reporting and AI. The role offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and strong growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Production data pipelines into a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred).
• AI-native: use AI coding agents daily for pipelines, SQL, tests and infra code.
• Strong SQL and Python; experience with dbt and managed ingestion tools such as Fivetran or Airbyte.
• Hands-on Postgres experience, including replication or change data capture.
• AWS experience (S3, RDS, IAM) and infrastructure as code.
• Security-minded approach to sensitive financial data: access controls, retention and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Build and run ingestion from platform databases and business tools into the data lake and Snowflake warehouse, with initial sources live within six weeks.
• Work AI-native from day one: AI coding agents write, test and document pipelines, checks and infrastructure code.
• Set up change data capture from Postgres replicas, so analytics never touches production.
• Own reliability, monitoring, data quality checks and cost control for the data platform.
• Collaborate with Platform Team on data contracts and access to production data.
• Build datasets with AI Engineering for model evaluation and processing accuracy.

Job description

Xelix in London is hiring a Data Engineer to join our new BI / Data team. You will build the data platform from the ground up: pipelines, data lake and Snowflake warehouse, enabling analytics and AI-driven insights.

You will work closely with the Platform Team to bring data together for analytics, reporting and AI. The role offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and strong growth opportunities.