Senior Data Engineer in London

Location: London
Salary: £500.00 per day
Recruiter: Referment Limited
Job Hours: Full-time

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A global leading commodities trading firm have partnered with Referment to find a skilled Data Engineer to join their London team on a contract basis.

This organisation has some exciting Greenfield projects focussed on modernisation of data warehouse, data lakes and data streaming services.

This is critical role, which will require designing, implementing, and enhancing data solutions to support the businesses trading operations.

This role will involve building out data pipelines, ETL processes and data warehouses and will require a well-rounded data engineer with deep experience in Python and other OO languages like Java.

Delivery is vital within this role so experience in scaling up data systems using the best data engineering processes is required.

Due to the nature of commodities trading, there is exciting problems to solve from data storage, reporting analytics and processing data in motion for real-time workloads to provide the best support for the business.

Key Requirements:

  • Experienced in building data pipelines, ETL processes and data warehouses.
  • Strong Python experience
  • Experienced with AWS and services like S3.
  • Experienced with Kafka for data streaming.
  • Familiarity with BI reporting tools
  • Good working experience with Airflow, PySpark and Apache Beam
  • Worked with Java for building data applications – Advantageous
  • Worked within the commodities space – Advantageous

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About Referment Limited


Referment is an innovative recruitment business, built for the Financial Services sector, we use a peer-to-peer sourcing model to identify the best candidates for the right roles. Our approach to recruitment is aligned with creating a collaborative economy. We are focused on rewarding our network of expert referrers for recommending high quality people to us, so everyone benefits.

This approach is much more effective and efficient at finding the best match between candidates and roles, allowing us to spend more time getting to know the candidates we are working with. Referrals can be made via our website or job ads, which is quick and simple to use, whilst commuting, making a cup of tea, or whenever is convenient.

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