
Senior Data Engineer
fanvue
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own and stabilise end-to-end data ingestion pipelines, including CDC ingestion via Amazon DMS
- Resolve schema drift issues and automate column ingestion to eliminate manual re-syncs
- Build production-grade observability for data pipelines, dbt runs, and Athena performance
- Implement monitoring and alerting to proactively catch data quality or pipeline issues
- Optimise CI/CD workflows for data transformations, reducing PR build times and deployment friction
- Design and implement reusable ingestion frameworks for onboarding new data sources quickly
- Establish strong data governance practices, including dbt tests in production and scheduled full-refresh pipelines
- Enable advanced analytics infrastructure, including AWS SageMaker integration and ad-hoc analytics environments
- Implement fine-grained access controls to secure PII and sensitive data as the company scales
- Collaborate closely with Platform, Analytics, and Product teams to align infrastructure with business needs
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a data engineer building production-grade data pipelines
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS data services such as S3, Athena, Glue, DMS, and CodePipeline
- Strong dbt expertise, including deployment architecture, CI/CD integration, and performance optimisation
- Experience implementing data quality frameworks, observability, and governance at scale
- Comfortable designing scalable data architectures and reusable ingestion patterns
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues independently
- Confident collaborating across analytics, platform, and product teams to deliver shared outcomes
Benefits
- Remote working
- Flexible hours, according to when you perform best
- Unlimited holiday
- Budget for growth and wellbeing
- A culture that values innovation, ownership, transparency, and speed
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Hard Skills & Tools
data ingestion pipelinesCDC ingestionschema drift resolutiondata quality frameworksCI/CD workflowsdata transformationsdata governance practicesdata architecturesreusable ingestion frameworksobservability
Soft Skills
strong ownership mindsetcollaborationproblem-solvingindependence