Senior Data Engineer: AI-Ready Data Infra, Remote

Spectrum Search; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum Search is partnering with an early-stage AI technology company to hire a Senior Data Engineer. You will own critical data pipelines and cloud infrastructure enabling AI-powered financial software, with potential to move into technical leadership.

This senior, hands-on role focuses on ingesting customer data, data modelling, integrations, and scalable data platforms. You will work in a Python-led environment with SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, graph databases, vector stores, and GCP, while

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering skills with production data pipelines.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade ETL/ELT systems.
• Experience supporting AI or ML-powered products in production.
• Strong data modelling and backend engineering principles.
• Familiarity with graph databases and vector stores.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve production Python data pipelines using ETL and ELT patterns.
• Develop connectors and API integrations across data warehouses and ERP, accounting and billing systems.
• Design data models and ontologies to support AI retrieval and agent reasoning.
• Work with graph databases and vector stores supporting retrieval-augmented generation workflows.
• Own engineering work across data, infrastructure and DevOps from design through to production.
• Maintain reliable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and security controls.
• Mentor other engineers as the data function develops.
• Contribute to longer-term technical direction and data architecture.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Data modelling

Backend engineering

ETL/ELT

Graph databases

Vector stores

SQL

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

IAM

Secrets management

Cloud platforms

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Spectrum Search is partnering with an early-stage AI technology company to hire a Senior Data Engineer. You will own critical data pipelines and cloud infrastructure enabling AI-powered financial software, with potential to move into technical leadership.

This senior, hands-on role focuses on ingesting customer data, data modelling, integrations, and scalable data platforms. You will work in a Python-led environment with SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, graph databases, vector stores, and GCP, while