London Data Engineering Lead for AML Platform

Adecco

City Of London

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Part time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Adecco is recruiting for a Quantexa Data Engineering Lead to drive the growth of a new capability supporting AML and financial crime initiatives across EMEA. This hands‑on leadership role combines team leadership, solution design and delivery across a global programme.

You will lead a small team of Data Engineers, shape the Quantexa platform strategy and actively contribute to design, development and implementation.

Qualifications

Proven Data Engineering leadership experience.
Working knowledge of Quantexa is required.
Strong hands-on experience with Scala and Spark.
Excellent knowledge of ETL, data architecture and cloud data platforms.
Experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks and SQL.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience operating within Financial Services environments.
Ability to balance technical leadership with hands-on delivery.
Proficient in tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Strong analytical skills for diagnosing and troubleshooting system issues.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of Quantexa Data Engineers across EMEA.
Act as the senior technical point of contact for the Quantexa platform.
Design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines and ETL processes.
Provide hands‑on development using Scala, Spark, Python and SQL.
Partner with technology, product and business stakeholders.
Drive best practice across engineering, testing, deployment and platform support.
Support the continued rollout and adoption of Quantexa across the organisation.
Contribute to cloud architecture leveraging Azure and Databricks.