Senior Data Engineer: Lead Data Platform & Governance

Zepz; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited annual leave

Healthcare benefits

London office

Employee discounts

In-person collaboration

Job summary

Zepz is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and management of our data platform. You will own data modeling, governance, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines across our cross-border remittance tech stack.

Join a global team, design robust data models, implement metadata management, and mentor engineers while optimizing compute and costs in a cloud-first environment. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience with data platforms.
• Expertise in data ingestion, warehousing, and modeling.
• Proficient in SQL and one programming language (Python/Scala/Java).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong governance, metadata, and data cataloging practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve data models for core datasets.
• Enforce data governance and data quality policies.
• Implement data cataloging and metadata management.
• Manage build/deploy lifecycle for data movement and ETL/ELT.
• Oversee compute resources and cost optimization.
• Provide mentoring to other data engineers.
• Evaluate new data technologies to improve the platform.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

Data modeling

SQL

Python/Scala/Java

Airflow

ETL/ELT pipelines

AWS/GCP/Azure

Data governance

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Fivetran

Astronomer

Mode

Delta Lake

Job description

Zepz is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and management of our data platform. You will own data modeling, governance, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines across our cross-border remittance tech stack.

Join a global team, design robust data models, implement metadata management, and mentor engineers while optimizing compute and costs in a cloud-first environment. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data outcomes.