Data Engineer - Retail banking

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks' expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Data Engineer for a 12 month contract based in London (hybrid -2 days in the office per week).

Purpose of the role:

The Data Engineer will help drive the build of effortless, digital first customer experiences, simplifying the organisation by developing innovative data driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and ETL design, inspiring to be commercially successful through insight and keep customers and the organisation's data safe and secure.

What you'll do:

• Build advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through removal of manual stages.
• Embed new data techniques through role modelling, training and experiment design oversight.
• Deliver a clear understanding of data platform costs to meet departments cost saving and income targets.
• Source new data using the most appropriate tooling for the situation.
• Develop solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with the client's streaming strategy.

The skills you'll need:

• Experience in developing data models & solutions from scratch ie from business requirements collection to the development of the solution.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to details in the data.
• Python
• Pyspark
• SQL
• Code management using Git.
• AWS

Desirable criteria includes:

• Experience working with mortgages data.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Experience working with treasury data.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business