Sr Data Engineer

Pismo; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Pismo is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to enhance their data platform. The role involves designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and maintaining high data governance standards. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills in AWS and experience in stream processing, along with a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a Data Engineer with strong AWS experience.
• Expertise in SQL and big data frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of data pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with SLAs and best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews.

Skills

Data Engineering

AWS

SQL

Stream Processing

Monitoring Tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Grafana

Cloudwatch

Job description

The Data Platform team at Pismo is responsible for integrating data produced by Pismo's Banking as a Service/Payments platform with its clients, whether through batch processing (files) or near real-time (events). With a robust, low-latency, and 100% cloud-based architecture, the team excels in technology and fosters a strong culture of collaboration, partnership, and data-driven decision making for platform development and project prioritisation

What you'll do

• Serve as a senior technical contributor on Pismo’s data stack, leading the design and development of robust, scalable data pipelines using modern Big Data frameworks.
• Drive continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, proactively identifying opportunities for innovation.
• Take ownership of production operations and monitoring (file- and event-based systems), ensuring adherence to SLAs and applying best practices for observability and resilience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, build, and evolve high-complexity data features, reducing technical debt and championing engineering excellence.
• Provide mentorship to peers through code reviews, feedback, and support, fostering an environment of knowledge sharing and professional development.
• Participate in on-call rotations, promptly addressing and resolving production incidents, while proactively implementing preventative measures.
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT processes to handle large-scale data, leveraging advanced data processing and distributed systems techniques.
• Maintain rigorous data governance and platform standards, working closely with data stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality data assets.
• Introduce and adopt new technologies, tools, or techniques that accelerate development cycles, improve performance, and reduce costs.

Minimum Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• 4+ Years experience as a Data Engineer
• Strong experience of AWS Services (eg Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, Firehose, and S3)
• Stream Processing and Delivery: Kinesis, Confluent Cloud, Amazon SNS, SQS and Event Bridge.
• Monitoring Tools: Grafana and Cloudwatch. (Logs / tracing / spans / monitor / alerts / dashboards)
• SQL experience
• Git / Github exposure

Desirable Qualifications

• CI/CD Experience
• Able to communicate in Portuguese

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