Senior Data Streaming Engineer – Remote, Real-Time Platform

TrueNorth®; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge e-commerce company based in London is seeking a Staff/Principal Data Streaming Engineer to shape their technical strategy for a modern, cloud-native data platform. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in real-time data systems and a solid background with streaming tools like Flink and Kafka. This role is fully remote and offers a flexible contract/potential permanent position, requiring candidates to have full right to work in the UK.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer, focused on real-time, distributed systems.
• Deep expertise with modern streaming tools such as Flink, Kafka, Spark, and Databricks.
• Strong cloud-native data architecture experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the technical strategy for a cloud-native, real-time data platform.
• Define technical strategy and create actionable roadmaps.
• Work on privacy-sensitive data and data governance frameworks.

Skills

Data Engineering

Real-time systems

Streaming tools: Flink

Kafka

Spark

Databricks

Cloud-native architecture

Python

Scala

Java

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

DBT

Job description

A cutting-edge e-commerce company based in London is seeking a Staff/Principal Data Streaming Engineer to shape their technical strategy for a modern, cloud-native data platform. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in real-time data systems and a solid background with streaming tools like Flink and Kafka. This role is fully remote and offers a flexible contract/potential permanent position, requiring candidates to have full right to work in the UK.