Ashdown Group

Ashdown Group

London

Data Engineer - London

Full-Time£50,000 - 85,000 per yearavant-hierUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £50,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Excellent SQL and Python skills
  • Experience working in modern cloud-based data environments
  • Hands-on experience with data observability tools such as Grafana, Monte Carlo, or Acceldata is highly desirable
  • Experience with data governance and quality platforms such as Informatica, Collibra, or Microsoft Purview is highly desirable
  • Experience within the Azure ecosystem, including data lakes and ETL/ELT pipelines, is a strong advantage
  • Experience building automated data validation frameworks
  • Experience defining and managing SLAs and SLOs
  • Experience working with distributed data architectures
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code is beneficial
  • A proactive, problem-solving mindset and a collaborative approach
Responsibilities:
  • Improve data quality and reduce incidents across our enterprise data platform
  • Build scalable observability across modern data systems
  • Ensure data across the organisation is accurate, reliable, and trusted for business decision-making
  • Take ownership of data reliability end-to-end
  • Design and implement frameworks that monitor data health, detect anomalies, and enforce standards across complex data pipelines and platforms
  • Work across our Data Engineering and Data Governance teams to support a proactive, reliability-led approach
  • Define and manage data SLAs and SLOs
  • Implement automated validation and observability tooling
  • Lead root cause analysis when issues occur
Technologies:
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • ETL
  • Grafana
  • Informatica
  • Support
  • Python
  • SQL

More:

We are a successful multinational technology business with a growing data team based in Central London. This is a hybrid role, with the flexibility to work from home two days per week. You will join a high-impact team focused on improving how data is trusted and used across the organisation, helping us move from reactive issue resolution to a proactive, reliability-led approach.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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About Ashdown Group

Ashdown Group

Ashdown Group

London

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoRustScalaReactAzureCI/CDUI

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