Ashdown Group
Data Engineer - London
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
- 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
- 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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Ashdown Group
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 13% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
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