Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £85,000 to £100,000.
Ten years of production Python, with ETL and ELT pipelines, event-driven ingestion and async processing on AWS sitting behind FastAPI services. Has put ML models and LLM RAG systems into production as actual services, with embeddings, document ingestion and semantic search rather than demos. Terraform, ECS, Step Functions, Bedrock and OpenSearch across the estate, with Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability.
Looking forTook voluntary redundancy during a consultation and treated it as the moment to move. Wants a mature, stable environment after a long stretch of uncertainty, and a role that keeps both the backend and the data engineering in it. No notice to serve.
How they came acrossAsked real questions about the product rather than about process, and wants to move fast. Worked remotely for years and now wants to be office-based.
Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL · Airflow, Pandas · AWS ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, Terraform · OpenSearch, Bedrock
Five employers over 13 years, from Spanish energy market analytics and FX data science into 4 and a half years of data engineering at a global bank, then a fund analytics business and a digital asset management SaaS platform. Average tenure 2 years 2 months, longest 4 years 2 months.
Available immediately, so a slow process will lose them. The last role ended in voluntary redundancy during a consultation, which is worth hearing about first-hand.
Masters in Artificial Intelligence.
Real-time ingestion is the specialism: Kinesis, Flink, Kafka and Spark Streaming feeding Iceberg and Delta Lake on S3, with Glue Data Catalog, Redshift and BigQuery on the warehouse side and Monte Carlo watching it. Leads a 2-person data platform team at 75% hands-on, 25% management. Cut infrastructure cost by up to 87% on one platform.
Looking forThe UK gambling tax jump from 21% to 40% has destabilised the business and they want out of the sector entirely. After a hands-on lead role at a Series B with end-to-end ownership, and would relocate to London for the right one. Needs visa sponsorship.
How they came acrossPuts stability and reliability ahead of technical novelty and volunteered that without being asked, which is the right instinct for a platform lead. Six years of fintech sits underneath the gaming role.
Python, SQL, PySpark, dbt · Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark · Iceberg, Delta Lake, Redshift, BigQuery
Six employers over 8 years, from a data science internship and travel technology in India through a data preparation platform and a neobank into gaming in the north east. Average tenure 1 year 11 months, longest 3 years 1 month.
Needs visa sponsorship, which is the first thing to check. Based in Newcastle and willing to move to London, but that relocation has to be factored in.
Masters in Advanced Computer Science from a Russell Group university.
Platform builds rather than pipeline maintenance. At a games studio they owned the data architecture, the scaling work and an LLM-integrated dashboarding layer on top. Before that a commodities trading firm, and at a global facilities and food services group they ran 8 engineers and 3 analysts across the AMETA region. Snowflake, dbt including dbt Fusion, Redshift, Azure Data Factory and Data Vault 2.0.
Looking forThe games studio went into liquidation in December after the launch failed, their second layoff in a row. Available now, needs skilled worker sponsorship, and stability outranks everything else. Won't take short contracts.
How they came acrossMatter-of-fact about two layoffs rather than bitter about them. What they keep returning to is wanting to own something end to end again, from the architecture through to the dashboards on top of it.
Python, SQL, PySpark · Snowflake, dbt, Redshift, Databricks · AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Kafka · Data Vault 2.0, CI/CD
6 employers over 7 years, from an ETL automation software vendor into facilities management, commodities trading and games. Average tenure 1 year 8 months, longest stint 3 years 10 months.
Needs skilled worker sponsorship and won't take contract work. Two layoffs in a row mean they will move quickly for a stable offer, so don't be slow.
Bachelors in computer applications.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank