Senior Data Platform Engineer: Lead Financial Data Platform

E-Frontiers; Galway; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Frontiers seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve a business-critical financial data reporting and visualisation platform used by senior investment professionals. You will design, develop and maintain data pipelines, optimise relational models and drive modern engineering practices across CI/CD and automation.

The role entails collaborating with equity research and technology leadership to deliver scalable, reliable solutions and to improve platform monitoring and governance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Software Engineering, Data Engineering or Data Platform Engineering experience.
• Strong Linux administration including networking, processes, filesystems, cron and systemd.
• Shell scripting experience (Bash, KSH or ZSH).
• Strong SQL skills with relational DB design/optimisation.
• Experience developing data visualization and reporting solutions.
• Solid understanding of data analysis, statistics and data engineering principles.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience modernising legacy platforms and scripting environments.
• Knowledge of ETL pipelines, APIs, message queues or workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Python development for automation, APIs or ML workflows.
• Experience building reusable engineering tools.
• Previous experience in financial services or capital markets.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of a financial data reporting and visualisation platform.
• Design, develop and maintain scripts that collect, transform, store and visualise data.
• Build scalable reporting and visualisation solutions for senior investment professionals.
• Collaborate with analysts, portfolio managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into tech solutions.
• Modernise legacy scripting environments while maintaining stability of reporting.
• Develop and optimise SQL queries, relational DB structures and data models.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Improve platform monitoring, performance, quality standards and reliability.
• Collaborate to enhance reusable tooling and automation.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to long-term evolution of the platform.

Skills

7+ years experience

Linux administration

Shell scripting

SQL

Data visualization

Git and CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Python

ETL concepts

Financial services domain

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Linux

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

E-Frontiers seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve a business-critical financial data reporting and visualisation platform used by senior investment professionals. You will design, develop and maintain data pipelines, optimise relational models and drive modern engineering practices across CI/CD and automation.

The role entails collaborating with equity research and technology leadership to deliver scalable, reliable solutions and to improve platform monitoring and governance.