Senior DataOps Engineer

Lorien

Coventry

1 week ago

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You will join one of the UK’s leading financial services companies, who have built their success by putting people at the heart of their organisation by identifying and delivering products and services that are right for their customers. My client is looking for a Senior DataOps Engineer to play a key role in the delivery, automation, and operational excellence of enterprise‑grade data platforms. You will work as part of cross‑functional, domain‑oriented data product teams, enabling the design, build, testing, deployment, and support of high‑quality data solutions.

This role has a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, data pipeline reliability, and continuous improvement, acting as a DataOps and delivery expert within the wider data engineering community.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and automate scalable, resilient data pipelines using modern data engineering and DataOps practices.
Act as a CI/CD subject matter expert for data engineering workloads, enabling repeatable, low‑risk, and high‑quality deployments.
Champion operational excellence, observability, monitoring, and automation across data platforms.
Continuously challenge and improve tools, processes, standards, and delivery approaches.
Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assurance across data engineering solutions.
Conduct design, code, and test reviews to ensure adherence to agreed standards and best practices.
Support production data solutions, including occasional out‑of‑hours support where required.
Strong experience in developing and automating scalable data pipelines in a Finance related data context with a DataOps/DevOps mindset
Demonstrable expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring systems to ensure scalable, reliable data workflows.
AWS data tooling such as S3/Glue/Redshift/SageMaker (Or relevant experience in another cloud technology).
Familiarity with Docker/ec2, Terraform and CI/CD platform (Github Actions & Admin).
Strong Data related programming skills SQL/Python/Spark/Scala.
Leadership experience: mentoring colleagues, conducting code reviews, leading technical delivery teams.
Salary up to £70,000 + up to 20% bonus
Hybrid working: 1 to 3 days a week in the office
28 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell)
Life assurance (6x annual salary)
Personal pension with matched contributions
Ongoing training and opportunities for development

If you are interested in the role, please apply now for immediate review!

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