Senior Data Engineer - FinTRACE Platform, Databricks & AI

Centrica Energy; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Central London office access

Job summary

Centrica Energy is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help shape FinTRACE, the post-trade data platform. You will own the Databricks-based data engineering and analytics stack, driving AI-enabled capabilities and trusted data products.

You will collaborate with Finance, Risk, Trading and Technology leaders to translate business priorities into scalable platform capabilities, while guiding engineering standards and reducing technical debt.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large Databricks implementations.
• Strong knowledge of Data Lakehouse architecture and Azure data services.
• Understand energy/commodities or financial trading environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap for the FinTRACE Databricks platform, scaling as the core data engineering/analytics platform.
• Define engineering standards, platform patterns and best practices for trusted data products.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Trading and Technology leaders to translate priorities into platform capabilities.
• Define and deliver the AI and data intelligence roadmap for FinTRACE (AI/ML/LLM) on trusted datasets.
• Lead platform transformation, migration and modernisation, reducing debt and improving delivery.
• Governance, controls and reliability to meet enterprise security and data governance.
• Act as the Databricks technical authority and coach engineers and data specialists.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Spark

SQL

Data Lakehouse

Azure Data Services

Data governance

Platform strategy

Engineering leadership

Tools

Databricks tooling

Azure data services

Job description

Centrica Energy is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help shape FinTRACE, the post-trade data platform. You will own the Databricks-based data engineering and analytics stack, driving AI-enabled capabilities and trusted data products.

You will collaborate with Finance, Risk, Trading and Technology leaders to translate business priorities into scalable platform capabilities, while guiding engineering standards and reducing technical debt.