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Data Engineer

London, UK

An exciting opportunity to join S64, the leading global alternative investments technology and manufacturing solutions partner to the wealth management industry. Headquartered in London, S64 has a global footprint with a presence across 9 locations in Europe, Asia and Australia.
We are seeking a Data Engineer with experience in Python to join our technology team in London and progress our web-based private equity management platform.  People who choose to build their careers at S64 will help shape the future of private markets in an era of rapid regulatory, market and technology change.
Responsibilities
  • Act as a champion for good data and good data architecture in the engineering team
  • Improve, create and maintain data ingest pipelines for receiving data from fund admins that will be shown in our applications
  • Maintain the databases for our environments
  • Collaborate with team members to design, develop and implement new features and functionality
  • Write clean, maintainable, efficient and well tested code
  • Troubleshoot and debug data issues
  • Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices and share them with the rest of the engineering team.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science.  We will consider candidates with backgrounds in other areas as long as they can demonstrate a strong history of delivery in our technologies.
  • At least 3 years of experience with data and python
  • Experience with Azure and using it for data processing, storage, and/or reporting
  • Experience in designing data stores (whether for relational, dimensional, NoSQL, Delta, etc)
  • Experience with our web development technology stack is a plus (typescript, react, node)
  • Experience working with financial services is a plus
  • Familiarity with Git and version control (particularly Azure DevOps)
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies
  • A pragmatic, right-tool-for-the-job mentality
  • Passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences and technology implementations.
  • Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, e.g. for data reconciliations, assessing data quality, and bug resolution
  • Experience with data reporting technologies (e.g. PowerBI) to provide information to business users (for canned or self-service reporting) as well as the IT function (e.g. for service monitoring/alerting/proactive data quality reporting) would be a bonus
Personal Characteristics:
  • You’re a self-starter and offer suggestions for activity that improves the product you work on
  • Willing to use your initiative to resolve issues, with a delivery-focused mindset, and prepared to put in the extra effort to produce solutions, code, and documentation that are suitable for the long-term
  • You’ll skilfully manage the demands and expectations of stakeholders and teams across the business, presenting your work and building relationships while representing your team
  • You realise the value of face-to-face time and appreciate the interpersonal opportunities and improvements that can make
  • Collaboration and communication are key; you’ll be an active contributor to our team culture. You’ll constantly look to advance your own knowledge and take opportunities to share your learning back with the team.