Senior Data Engineering Leader – Cloud Platform

Brightwater Executive; Dublin; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwater Executive in Dublin city centre is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to own the firm's data platform strategy and production-grade delivery in AWS. This hands-on leadership role combines strategic direction with execution across ingestion, transformation, and data governance.

You will lead a cross-functional team, define standards, mentor engineers, and build scalable pipelines that enable AI, analytics, and regulatory reporting in a fast-growing financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering or technology leadership experience in cloud-first environments.
• Proven track record delivering production ETL/ELT pipelines in AWS.
• Experience designing data platform architecture, technical standards and reusable engineering patterns.
• Strong technical judgement and ability to influence direction.
• Degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical data engineering strategy across ingestion, transformation, modelling, quality, lineage and consumption.
• Establish reusable patterns for third-party extracts, vendor data, APIs, bordereaux, underwriting data, exposure data, claims data and internal analytics.
• Define the technical roadmap for the data platform and sequence engineering investment.
• Set architectural principles and standards for how the data asset is engineered, maintained, controlled and consumed.
• Translate platform architecture and requirements into robust, scalable implementations.
• Design and implement data ingestion and transformation pipelines combining fragmented datasets including exposure data, modelling outputs, internal analytics and unstructured information.
• Build shared libraries to ensure consistent data access across applications.
• Build datasets and platform capabilities supporting AI and modelling workflows across the business.
• Define schemas and storage structures across different layers of the platform.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS (Data Platform)

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modelling

APIs

Git / GitHub

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Data quality & governance

Iceberg/Delta Lake

Regulated industry experience

GenAI / AI platforms

Education

BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline

Tools

S3

Glue

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

Redshift

Job description

Brightwater Executive in Dublin city centre is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to own the firm's data platform strategy and production-grade delivery in AWS. This hands-on leadership role combines strategic direction with execution across ingestion, transformation, and data governance.

You will lead a cross-functional team, define standards, mentor engineers, and build scalable pipelines that enable AI, analytics, and regulatory reporting in a fast-growing financial services environment.