Senior Data Engineer - Integration

Hargreaves Lansdown; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading investment services company in the UK as a Senior Data Engineer. You will lead engineering efforts for data hubs, creating robust data pipelines and collaborating with teams to enhance data integration. This role offers opportunities for significant impact in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and quality.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Enhanced parental leave

Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plans

Health screening programme

Inhouse barista and deli

Two paid volunteering days per year

Qualifications

• Experience in high volume data and low latency data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of automated testing in data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Delivering and owning critical data hubs for operational and analytical consumption.
• Creating robust data pipelines adhering to best practices.
• Collaborating with architecture and security teams.

Skills

Modelling

Orchestration using Apache Airflow

Cloud native streaming pipelines

DBT

Snowflake

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the UK's leading investment services company? We are on a mission to revolutionize our data strategy by building core data hubs that serve as a single source of truth for our business. Our evolving data estate on AWS and Snowflake is at the heart of this transformation, consolidating key data areas such as client, account, and market reference data hubs.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead the engineering efforts for these data hubs, collaborating closely with our wider data platform team. Your role will involve creating robust data pipelines that adhere to our best practices and architectural principles. A strong understanding of automated testing in data platforms is essential, as we strive to achieve a fully automated testing suite managed through DevOps processes.

This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to integration deliveries using our AWS platform, working within our dynamic data integration team. You will be part of a secure, innovative, and digital-focused company where you can truly leave your mark.

What You'll Be Doing

• Delivering and owning critical data hubs for downstream operational and analytical consumption.
• Design and build in accordance with data engineering best practices around operational readiness, observability &automated testing.
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to implement security principles, e.g. PII handling, GDP compliance.
• Providing technical leadership and solutions for the wider data platform adoption.
• Design and deliver data integration patterns from the data hubs for operational consumption.
• Delivering Cloud native solutions on our AWS platform while working as a part of wider integration team
• Work in a fast-paced agile environment with continuous delivery focussed on use cases and objectives.
• Engaging with stakeholders to build roadmaps for the core hubs.
• Lead by example as part of a data engineering team.

About You

You are a highly skilled data engineer with experience in working with high volume data / low latency data pipeline.

Data Engineering skills

• Modelling
• Orchestration using Apache Airflow
• Cloud native streaming pipelines using Flink, Beam etc.
• DBT
• Snowflake

Infrastructure Skills

• Terraform

Devops Skills

• Experienced in developing CI/CD pipelines

Integration Skills

• REST and Graph APIs (Desirable)
• Serverless API development ( e.g. Lambda, Cloud Functions etc.) (Desirable)

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus * and annual pay review
• 25 days * holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday **
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider s and w ellness c oach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• T wo paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.