Senior Data Engineer — Cloud Data Platforms for AI

Indicium AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonus

Learning and development budget

Choice of equipment (MacBook/PC)

Global consultancy exposure

Job summary

Indicium AI in London is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale modern cloud-native data platforms supporting analytics, AI, and business decisions. You’ll partner with clients to modernise data estates and deliver scalable data solutions across cloud environments.

The role blends deep technical delivery with pragmatic, outcome-focused advisory, guiding engineering best practices and DataOps across client engagements.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience building modern data platforms and data products in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience with one or more major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven commercial experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake, including design, implementation, and optimization at scale.
• Strong SQL expertise and software engineering experience using Python and/or other modern programming languages.
• Experience developing and orchestrating data pipelines using technologies such as DBT, Apache Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Kafka, Flink, or equivalent tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement modern data platforms, data products, and scalable data pipelines across cloud environments.
• Build, optimise, and maintain batch and real-time data processing solutions to support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and AI use cases.
• Work with clients to understand business requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to solution architecture, platform design, and technology selection decisions.
• Implement software engineering and DataOps best practices including testing, observability, CI/CD, version control, and infrastructure automation.
• Develop and optimise data models, transformations, and storage layers to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Scientists, AI Engineers, Platform Engineers, Architects, and business stakeholders.
• Support clients through discovery, design, delivery, and adoption phases of data transformation programmes.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of engineering capability across project teams.
• Contribute to internal initiatives including accelerators, technical communities, blogs, thought leadership, and capability development.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Consulting

Stakeholder communication

Distributed systems

Data modelling

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Airflow

Kafka

Spark

DBT

Dagster

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Bicep

Job description

Indicium AI in London is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale modern cloud-native data platforms supporting analytics, AI, and business decisions. You’ll partner with clients to modernise data estates and deliver scalable data solutions across cloud environments.

The role blends deep technical delivery with pragmatic, outcome-focused advisory, guiding engineering best practices and DataOps across client engagements.