Senior Data Engineer — Remote Real-Time Data Platform

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

Job summary

Keyrock is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to help build the Data Platform that serves trading desks, wealth and asset management, product, risk, finance, and research. You’ll design streaming and batch pipelines, establish data contracts, and evolve the lakehouse architecture.

The role emphasizes self-service tooling, observability, and cost-conscious design, with a predominantly remote work model and UK/EU collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production data systems.
• Strong Python and SQL with attention to engine behavior.
• Readable, testable, and maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Build streaming and batch pipelines ingesting market and portfolio data.
• Create self-serve tooling (SDKs, templates, AI agents) for data products.
• Own data contracts and schema evolution to avoid multi-team bottlenecks.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Streaming systems

Observability

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Tools

ClickHouse

Time-series store

Job description

Keyrock is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to help build the Data Platform that serves trading desks, wealth and asset management, product, risk, finance, and research. You’ll design streaming and batch pipelines, establish data contracts, and evolve the lakehouse architecture.

The role emphasizes self-service tooling, observability, and cost-conscious design, with a predominantly remote work model and UK/EU collaboration.