Senior Data Platform Engineer for Real-Time Trading

London Metal Exchange; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

London Metal Exchange is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to shape and deliver a strategic data platform capable of processing billions of events daily. You will work with JVM languages and modern data technologies to build scalable pipelines, data lakes, and real-time streaming components, enabling fast, reliable access to market data for analytics and trading workloads.

The role emphasizes self-service capabilities, platform security, and collaboration across Trading Technology, Data

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience, preferably with JVM-based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin).
• Expertise in building highly scalable data platforms, data warehouses (SQL Server, Postgres) and modern data lakes.
• Ability to tackle complex scalability, reliability, latency and performance challenges in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience delivering self-service data platform capabilities for onboarding, processing, discovering and consuming data.
• Influence technology strategy and roadmaps across Trading Tech, Data Eng and Platform Eng functions.

Responsibilities

• Help shape LME's strategic data platform to process, store and serve high-volume, high-velocity trading data.
• Deliver a scalable, resilient data platform serving as the engineering foundation for data-intensive workloads.
• Lead design and implementation of APIs, data products, metadata services and developer enablement frameworks.

Skills

Java/Scala/Kotlin

Distributed systems

Data platform development

Self-service data platforms

Cloud-native platform engineering

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD / GitOps

Data governance & metadata

Security & regulatory compliance

Technical leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

DataHub/OpenMetadata

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Apache Iceberg

S3-compatible storage

Trino

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

London Metal Exchange is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to shape and deliver a strategic data platform capable of processing billions of events daily. You will work with JVM languages and modern data technologies to build scalable pipelines, data lakes, and real-time streaming components, enabling fast, reliable access to market data for analytics and trading workloads.

The role emphasizes self-service capabilities, platform security, and collaboration across Trading Technology, Data