Junior Data Platform Engineer - AWS & Snowflake

Carbon Data Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private health coverage

Retirement savings plan

Office meals & snacks

Employee referral programme

Job summary

Lendable in London is hiring a Junior Data Platform Engineer to work with senior engineers on data pipelines, Snowflake warehouses, and cloud-first data solutions. You will own parts of the data platform, collaborating with product and analytics teams to deliver scalable, reliable data systems.

You will grow with a fast-paced fintech team, applying strong fundamentals to build data-intensive systems using Python, AWS, and modern tooling, while balancing speed, security, and cost considerations.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• Solid programming ability (Python or similar).
• Strong experience with Snowflake (or similar warehouses).
• Good understanding of software engineering patterns and architectures.
• Experience building data-intensive systems.
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform ideally).
• Familiarity with modern data architectures (Lambda/Kappa).

Responsibilities

• Tackle complex data challenges alongside senior team members.
• Take ownership of defined areas of the problem and deliver pragmatic solutions.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams with a high degree of autonomy.
• Shape data platform interactions to enable fast, iterative analytics while ensuring reliability and cost control.
• Work across a broad set of technologies as the platform evolves.

Skills

Python

Data-intensive systems

Problem solving

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Argo

GitHub Actions

HashiCorp Vault

Claude

Job description

Lendable in London is hiring a Junior Data Platform Engineer to work with senior engineers on data pipelines, Snowflake warehouses, and cloud-first data solutions. You will own parts of the data platform, collaborating with product and analytics teams to deliver scalable, reliable data systems.

You will grow with a fast-paced fintech team, applying strong fundamentals to build data-intensive systems using Python, AWS, and modern tooling, while balancing speed, security, and cost considerations.