Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Lakehouse & AI Analytics

Kindred (London) Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

FDJ UNITED is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design and maintain scalable data architectures across on-prem and cloud environments. You will enable real-time analytics and governance while promoting self-service insights for business users.

Key skills include data lakehouse design (Iceberg), AWS/Azure data services, dbt, Airflow, and BI/dashboard experience. The role emphasizes automation, quality, and collaboration with architects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience building data lake/lakehouse architectures in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure data services.
• Experience with ETL/ELT and data ingestion.
• Proficiency with dbt and data orchestration (Airflow).
• CI/CD practices in data engineering.
• Familiarity with Power BI or QuickSight for dashboards.
• Nice to have Java experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data solutions for on-prem and cloud environments.
• Build modern data lake/lakehouse architectures.
• Enhance integration using domain events for real-time processing.
• Champion self-service analytics and AI-enabled features.
• Deliver scalable insights with strong performance and accessibility.
• Automate ETL/ELT and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and document GAPs with architects.
• Support data governance, quality, and KPI accuracy.
• Handle release management and on-call incident support.

Skills

5+ years data engineering

Data lake/lakehouse architectures

AWS or Azure data services

ETL/ELT processes

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD for data

Power BI / QuickSight

Generative AI in analytics

Java (nice to have)

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Open Metadata

dbt (tool)

Apache Airflow

Job description

FDJ UNITED is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design and maintain scalable data architectures across on-prem and cloud environments. You will enable real-time analytics and governance while promoting self-service insights for business users.

Key skills include data lakehouse design (Iceberg), AWS/Azure data services, dbt, Airflow, and BI/dashboard experience. The role emphasizes automation, quality, and collaboration with architects.