Senior Data Engineer – Remote (UK) | ETL, Snowflake, AWS

McNally Recruitment Ltd; Easter Howgate; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

McNally Recruitment Ltd is sourcing a Senior Data Engineer for an extensive UK client. You may work from Edinburgh (preferred), London or Manchester with 6 days per month in the office and the rest remotely.

You'll design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes and scalable data architectures, ensuring security and governance. Expect collaboration across teams and a strong emphasis on delivering practical, data-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial data engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of data usage and dependency management and ability to extract features from large-scale data.
• Experience designing ETL/ELT solutions with well-modelled data, testing and cleansing.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud data platforms, Airflow, AWS Glue and metadata services; security/governance practices.
• Proficient in SQL and Python; strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Familiar with modern code development practices and proactive communication with stakeholders.
• Desirable: experience with S3/QuickSight and Financial Services exposure.

Responsibilities

• Build advanced automation of data pipelines by removing manual stages.
• Embed new data techniques into business processes via modelling, training and design oversight.
• Deliver clear cost understanding of data platform to meet department targets.
• Source new data using appropriate tooling.
• Develop streaming data ingestion and transformation solutions aligned with the streaming strategy.

Skills

8+ years data engineering

Data usage & dependencies

ETL/ELT design

Well-modelled data & testing

Snowflake data warehousing

AWS cloud data platforms & Airflow

SQL & Python

Code development practices

Security & governance

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

AWS Glue

Job description

McNally Recruitment Ltd is sourcing a Senior Data Engineer for an extensive UK client. You may work from Edinburgh (preferred), London or Manchester with 6 days per month in the office and the rest remotely.

You'll design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes and scalable data architectures, ensuring security and governance. Expect collaboration across teams and a strong emphasis on delivering practical, data-driven solutions.