Sr. Data Engineer - Architecture
About this role
Data Engineer - Architecture, you will drive data infrastructure that enables data-informed decision-making, applying modern engineering and distributed systems practices. You will partner closely with Product Managers, Data Analysts, Software Engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver stable, high-quality data pipelines, enterprise reporting, and datasets that support analytics and machine learning use cases. A primary responsibility of this role is to optimize and maintain our OLTP databases, ensuring reliability, performance, and production readiness. This includes auditing systems, improving data quality, refactoring legacy pipelines, and applying best practices for schema design, indexing, and query performance. In parallel, you will build and maintain scalable data systems that power advanced analytics across the business. You will design performance testing and release validation frameworks to prevent regressions and ensure data integrity, while establishing strong production processes such as monitoring, alerting, backup and recovery, access controls, and incident response. Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field 5+ years of experience as a Database Engineer, Data Engineer, or similar role Core Data Engineering & Architecture Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining high performant, scalable OLTP systems.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in the UK advertise this kind of work as Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist and Senior Data Engineer too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a senior Data, AI & Machine Learning role in the UK, advertised as fully remote, so it is open to candidates working from home.
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