Perl Data Acquisition Engineer (AI-Assisted)

Gresham; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Gresham is a global financial services technology company specialising in enterprise data automation. The Pulse Data Services team sits at the heart of our data acquisition capability, connecting to thousands of data feeds and delivering data into client service pipelines.

This hands-on engineering role focuses on retrieving data, improving performance and scaling our data pipeline, in collaboration with Pulse Data Development and Managed Services teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive years’ professional Perl development experience in production environments.
• Experience with object-oriented Perl, CPAN modules, and writing clean, maintainable, testable code.
• Proficiency with AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Automate data retrieval from diverse financial sources and improve pipelines.
• Collaborate with development and managed services teams to enhance processes and accuracy.
• Troubleshoot data issues, perform fault-finding, and document findings clearly.
• Engage with data providers on production issues and environment upgrades.
• Partner with teams to translate user enhancement requests into technical solutions.
• Contribute to design, testing and deployment of system enhancements.

Skills

Perl programming

AI-assisted coding

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Git

Selenium WebDriver

CPAN modules

Linux commands

Job description

Gresham is a global financial services technology company specialising in enterprise data automation. The Pulse Data Services team sits at the heart of our data acquisition capability, connecting to thousands of data feeds and delivering data into client service pipelines.

This hands-on engineering role focuses on retrieving data, improving performance and scaling our data pipeline, in collaboration with Pulse Data Development and Managed Services teams.