Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Lead Client Data Platform

Harrington Starr; City Of London; On-site; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Harrington Starr in London is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own complex client implementations end-to-end. You will blend deep product expertise with hands-on engineering, delivering scalable data platform solutions for leading financial institutions.

This role offers high visibility, technical leadership, and a route into principal FDE or leadership, with competitive senior compensation and premium benefits.

Qualifications

• Senior software engineer with client-facing delivery experience.
• Deep knowledge of investment operations or financial data platforms.
• Experience mentoring engineers and setting quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of client workstreams.
• Translate business problems into platform structures and debug across stack.
• Build data pipelines, integrations, workflows, and config-driven deployments.
• Mentor engineers and set engineering standards via code reviews.
• Collaborate with senior client stakeholders to align solutions.

Skills

C#

Python

SQL

Full-stack debugging

Client-facing

Mentoring

Job description

Harrington Starr in London is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own complex client implementations end-to-end. You will blend deep product expertise with hands-on engineering, delivering scalable data platform solutions for leading financial institutions.

This role offers high visibility, technical leadership, and a route into principal FDE or leadership, with competitive senior compensation and premium benefits.