Senior Data Engineer (AWS)

VIQU IT Recruitment
London, GB
Hybrid

Job Description

Senior Data Engineer

London - Hybrid

Up to £90,000

VIQU have partnered with a prominent organisation operating within a highly innovative and evolving sector. They are looking to recruit a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in designing and building data-driven software that directly powers customer-facing products. This is a hands-on opportunity for an engineer who wants to move beyond traditional data pipelines and take ownership of scalable, production-grade data services within a modern engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Data Engineer:

  • Design and build scalable, production-grade data services using Python
  • Architect and develop event-driven and streaming data systems
  • Build and manage data pipelines and services within an AWS-native environment
  • Develop solutions using AWS services including S3 and Athena
  • Design and implement messaging and event queue systems (e.g. Pulsar or similar)
  • Build containerised applications using Docker within a microservices architecture
  • Work closely with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing data solutions
  • Take ownership of system design, performance and scalability decisions
  • Contribute to infrastructure design using Terraform and modern DevOps practices
  • Support and mentor other engineers within the team

Key Requirements of the Senior Data Engineer:

  • 5+ years experience in data engineering or backend/software engineering roles
  • Strong Python development skills, building clean, scalable, production-grade software
  • Proven experience designing and building data systems and architecture from scratch
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS (essential), including services such as S3 and Athena
  • Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka, Pulsar or similar)
  • Experience building or working with messaging/event queue systems
  • Experience with containerisation tools such as Docker (Kubernetes beneficial)
  • Experience working with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
  • Strong understanding of ETL design, beyond low-code or heavily managed platforms
  • Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Cassandra)
  • Experience delivering solutions within a product-focused environment with end-user impact

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Katie Dark

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Senior Data Engineer

London - Hybrid

Up to £90,000

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

PythonAwsS3AthenaPulsarDockerTerraformEtl designSqlNosql databasesTeamworkMentorshipSystem designPerformance and scalability decisionsData engineeringBackend/software engineeringData pipelinesEvent-driven and streaming data systemsContainerised applicationsMicroservices architecture

Salary

£90,000 - £90,000

year

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

senior

Posted

4/28/2026

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