Data Engineer

Start April initially until Dec 2026

Central London

Certain Advantage are seeking Engineers skilled in Python, PySpark and Azure infrastructure services to join a platform team supporting a major data and analytics initiative within a globally renowned Trading business in London.

You must be willing to work 3 days a week onsite in central London.

This Engineer position is critical to enhancing the team’s ability to deliver re-usable, high quality data pipelines, reduce bottlenecks, and accelerate insight availability for business stakeholders.

We need Engineers to have a solid architectural foundation to be able to solve problems independently at a fast pace. You’ll need to offer strong effective communication skills to be able to understand requirements and communicate with technical leaders asynchronously across 5 time zones.

Your initial work will involve abstracting code from our product teams into a shared, common python library leveraging PySpark/dataframes.

You’ll also be building microservices in the form of python-based Azure Functions.

After the initial pre-defined work, you’ll serve as an extension of the product teams building microservices and libraries to solve the common needs across the teams.

Required skills:

Python PySpark SQL Azure infrastructure Understanding of Containers, Microservices, and Functional design patterns Experience with Agile processes Experience with Terraform Experience with Unit Testing Preferably PyTestOptional, but recommended skills:

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