7 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Data Lake infrastructure and ETL pipelines.
- Migrate model calibration, ad-hoc analytics, and reporting workloads into the Data Lake.
- Partner with Data Science to enable scalable and efficient data usage.
- Redesign data structures and clustering strategies to improve query performance and data freshness.
- Optimize infrastructure to reduce AWS costs while maintaining reliability and scalability.
- Build robust, production-grade data systems using AWS tooling.
- Implement governance, standards, and best practices across data platforms.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering foundation with applied knowledge of SOLID principles in data systems.
- Proven experience building and maintaining Change Data Capture pipelines, ideally using AWS DMS.
- Hands-on expertise with Spark and AWS Glue, including transforming RDS workloads into scalable pipelines.
- High proficiency in SQL, particularly in transactional RDS environments.
- Experience implementing governance, standards, and best practices across data platforms.
- Ability to own systems end-to-end and collaborate with technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Equity ownership in the company.
- Hybrid work with three days per week in the office.
- 25 days of holiday plus eight bank holidays per year.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- One month of paid sabbatical after four years.
- Employee loan.
- Free gym membership.
- Team wellness budget for activities such as yoga, tennis, or bouldering.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Abound
Abound is a UK consumer lender that uses Open Banking data and AI to underwrite personal loans of £1,000–£20,000 with terms up to five years. It lends directly to consumers and evaluates overall financial health rather than only credit scores; Abound is a trading name of Fintern Ltd, an FCA‑authorised firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in London. The company has issued over £1.3bn in loans and reached profitability about 2.5 years after launch.