At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and optimise scalable data platforms for cutting-edge financial products.
- Company: Join a leading financial technology team in Newcastle.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, performance bonus, and clear progression opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on mission-critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: Strong programming skills and experience with large-scale data systems required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 140000 £ per year.
Location
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Office-based – 5 days per week)
- Join a High-Performance Financial Technology Team
They are building one of the UK's leading data engineering teams to power the next generation of financial products and investment technology.
We're looking for exceptional Senior Data Engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems at scale and want to work alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry.
This is a full-time, office-based role in our Newcastle headquarters, offering the opportunity to have a significant impact on business-critical systems in a fast-paced financial environment.
What You'll Do
- Design, build and optimise scalable data platforms and pipelines.
- Develop high-performance ETL/ELT processes for large and complex datasets.
- Build reliable, resilient and secure data infrastructure.
- Work closely with software engineers, quantitative researchers and business stakeholders.
- Improve data quality, governance and observability across the platform.
- Drive engineering best practices, code quality and technical excellence.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's technical direction.
Requirements
We're looking for candidates with exceptional academic and technical credentials, including:
- A minimum 2:1 degree from a leading university.
- Extensive experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar data platform engineering role.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java or Scala.
- Expert SQL knowledge and experience working with large-scale data systems.
- Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
- Strong knowledge of distributed data processing technologies such as Spark, Kafka or Flink.
- Experience designing scalable data warehouses and data lake architectures.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Ability to thrive in a high-performance, fast-moving environment.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary of
£80,000–£140,000 , depending on experience.
10% annual performance bonus.
- Opportunity to work on challenging, large-scale financial data platforms.
- Direct impact on mission-critical systems.
- Clear progression opportunities in a growing engineering organisation.
- A collaborative culture focused on technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Working Arrangement
This is a fully office-based role , with attendance required five days per week at our Newcastle office.
If you're an ambitious engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems and wants to work with exceptional colleagues in a high-performance financial environment, we'd love to hear from you.
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Senior Data Engineer (Newcastle) in Newcastle upon Tyne employer: Oliver Bernard
At Oliver Bernard, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer that fosters innovation and collaboration in the tech space. Our hybrid work model allows for flexibility while still providing opportunities for meaningful face-to-face interactions in our London office. We are committed to employee growth, offering continuous learning opportunities and a supportive work culture that values creativity and teamwork, making us an ideal place for passionate Full Stack Engineers to thrive.
