Data Engineer
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£54,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2133 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,900, and Citywire is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2134 (Programmers and software development professionals, Heavy Python, SQL, dbt and pipeline engineering could be software development). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
Citywire's data platform powers products across the company, both internal and external, from our industry ratings to our growing estate of production AI systems. We're hiring a Data Engineer to help build the pipelines and data models at the heart of it - taking requirements from stakeholder teams and turning them into tested, scheduled, monitored production systems. This is a growth role by design. You'll work directly with, and be mentored by, the platform lead - on architecture, on production engineering discipline, and on working effectively with AI coding agents at production scale.
What you'll be doing:
- Production data modelling: Translate analyst requirements and SQL into robust, production-grade dbt models (source 12 warehouse 12 reporting layers). You'll own data contracts, documentation, testing, and scheduling, with orchestration managed via Prefect.
- Large-scale fund and manager performance computation: Help decompose a legacy performance engine into a modern, event-driven AWS architecture (EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, S3, RDS). You'll build parallel compute pipelines using Spark on EMR (no deep prior Spark experience needed, just a strong curiosity for distributed systems).
- Data models for AI systems: Partner with the Platform Lead to design, build, and maintain the data models powering our AI platform - spanning fund and share class data, clickstream interactions, and CRM and finance systems.
- Alerting and observability: Ensure operational health across all pipelines via structured logging, metrics, DLQ tracking, and purposeful alerting. We view observability as a core engineering practice and will support your growth in designing resilient event-driven systems.
- Work directly with the analyst team and the data quality team, from requirement through deployment.
What we're looking for:
- Real dbt experience: You've built and maintained models in a genuine project - incremental logic, tests, an understanding of why downstream consumers matter. It doesn't need to have been enormous; it needs to have been real. BigQuery experience is a plus; another warehouse is fine.
Nice to Have (Genuinely learnable here - we will train you):
- Frameworks & Tools: Spark on EMR, Prefect (or experience transferring from Airflow/Dagster), OpenSearch.
- Architecture: Event-driven design patterns, SurrealDB or graph data stores.
- Domain Knowledge: Financial services or asset management context.
Company Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (goes up to 28 after 3 years service, 29 after 4 and 30 after 5 years service)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Well-being Subsidy
- Pension Scheme
- Tech scheme plus so much potential to learn and develop within your role
- Opportunity to work with modern technologies and the opportunity to explore and innovate with new tech
- We also give you 10% of your working time for your own personal development.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Citywire, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2133 going rate of £54,900. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.