Lead Data Engineer

EXL

Lead Data Engineer responsible for driving ETL pipeline design and delivery for a major banking client's Risk Data Warehouse. Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and supporting ongoing initiatives.

Posted 5/18/2026contractEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ETLOracleSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, build, and validation of ETL pipelines supporting the Risk Data Warehouse
Make and document ETL and data flow design decisions, ensuring traceability and regulatory compliance
Deliver high-quality data pipelines supporting Basel 3.1, Murex migration, and credit risk reporting
Define and implement data lineage, controls, and validation frameworks
Provide hands-on technical leadership across DataStage and Oracle development
Collaborate with risk, trading, and engineering stakeholders to gather and translate requirements into scalable data solutions
Act as the primary escalation point for critical RDW incidents, including triage, root cause analysis, and resolution
Produce production-ready artefacts (monitoring, runbooks, failure handling, support documentation)
Drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews and corrective actions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience as a Senior / Lead Data Engineer within banking or financial services
Proven background delivering regulatory data solutions (e.g. Basel, credit risk, capital reporting)
Deep expertise in IBM DataStage and Oracle (PL/SQL, data warehousing)
Experience working on Risk Data Warehouse or similar enterprise data platforms
Strong understanding of data lineage, governance, and control frameworks
Experience integrating risk data flows with trading / risk systems (e.g. Murex or similar)
Demonstrated ability to operate in hands-on delivery roles, leading engineering teams and solving complex technical challenges
To be considered for this role, you must already be eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible hybrid working
Support ongoing regulatory change initiatives
Stability of production data pipelines

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Hard Skills & Tools

ETLdata flow designdata lineagedata governanceIBM DataStageOraclePL/SQLdata warehousingregulatory data solutionscredit risk reporting

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationincident managementcontinuous improvementdocumentationstakeholder engagementroot cause analysisdecision making