At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and manage data models on BigQuery for trading and compliance.
- Company: Global exchange with a focus on AI and data innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, exciting projects, and opportunities in FinTech.
- Other info: Work on greenfield projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Join a cutting-edge team and shape the future of AI in finance.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in data engineering with GCP and BigQuery experience.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 98000 £ per year.
A global exchange with a media and market data business attached are building out their AI & Data Platform team and need multiple Senior Data Engineers based in London to help the business move to Google Cloud and become AI-ready for the multi-agent projects in the pipeline.
If you're at a Google Cloud partner and you've spent years implementing this stack for other businesses, BigQuery, Composer, Looker, enterprise agent platform then this is the role where you can own it. You build it, you run it, and the output feeds real trading and compliance decisions on a live, regulated exchange operating at huge scale.
What you'll be doing:
- Building and owning dbt models on BigQuery across trading, finance, and regulatory domains
- Supporting both BI users (Looker dashboards) and AI agents consuming governed data via MCP
- Owning pipeline reliability during London hours; incident response, schema drift, reconciliation breaks
- Semantic layer work that needs to be precise enough for AI agents to query correctly
What they're looking for:
- ~5+ years in data engineering, production pipelines, layered architectures
- ~ GCP / BigQuery hands-on experience, as well as other Google Cloud services.
- ~ Looker / LookML is a plus
If you're looking to join a business with plenty of greenfield projects, who are serious about AI and likes the idea of being in the FinTech world, this could be a great fit.
Comp is competitive and reflective of experience.
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