You can view related vacancies or set-up an email alert notification when similar jobs are added to the website below.
Job Description
Data Engineer (Python/Power BI) - Financial Services
A financial services company based in the City of London is seeking a Data Engineer that has a strong background in Python and Power BI to join the Software Delivery team to strengthen the power of data within the business. The company is moving its data from legacy stores to a strategic data warehouse and data lakes to optimise its operational workload, research, and analytics.
This person will help influence high-level decisions regarding various processes including design choices, technical standards, coding standards, and tools, while also working collaboratively with the team by utilising communication and problem solving skills.
Key responsibilities:
- Ability to build data pipelines that will allow optimal extraction, transformation, and incorporation of data from various data sources.
- Be able to utilise Power BI to build dashboards and reports.
- Understand the Data Virtualisation layer and partner with the Business for continued deployment and Business enhancements.
- Improve solutions and be able to anticipate where the demand is for the business.
- Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide key insights for various areas of the business.
- Automate processes for early feedback.
- Communicate progress and risk to appropriate teams.
- Contribute to the continual evaluation of suitability of tool choices.
- Collaborate towards the onboarding of Jupiter playbooks/python apps.
Your experience:
- Building API's with a key focus on Python.
- Optimise 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
- Strong experience in Power BI including advanced ability to design dashboards.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
- The ability to manipulate, combine, process, and extract value from disconnected datasets.
- Strong experience in automating formulas from Excel to Power BI.
- Be able to guide other members of the team on Power BI.
- Working experience developing Power Bi custom visuals in R.
- Experience in merging disparate data sets from multiple data sources
This is a contract position based in London that operates on a hybrid work setup of three days per week in the office.
SIMILAR JOBS
-
Linux Administrator (Contract) - Investment Bank
A Bank in the City of London is currently seeking a Linux Administrator to join their EMEA Technology team.
The Linux team is responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing their linux related technologies across the estate, as well as supporting the drive towards automation by implementation solutions within a project environment.
From a BAU perspective the team take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as well as ensuring all Linux/Unix systems are backed up. Other duties include validating monitoring alerts, ensuring sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth, as well as maintaining Linux platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner.
From a project perspective the Linux Administrator will help identify savings across project & BAU activities to be implemented through automation involving a detailed process flow, and ensure that all project/investment related workloads are delivered according to plans and defined budgets
Required skills:
- Red Hat and Solaris, including system internals and kernel tuning.
- Red Hat Satellite
- Ansible
- AWX
- REST API integration
- Scripting
- CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts
- Dev/Ops mentality
- Git or other source code control software
- Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.
- Good working knowledge of Python, Perl and Bash scripting.
- Clustering and high-availability technologies
-
Digital Solutions Architect - Financial Services
A Financial Services Company in Southampton is currently seeking a Solutions Architect to join their Technology team.
The company are currently going through a lot of positive change and digital transformation across various user platforms, with improvements across the digitalization of key applications. The company are well into their cloud journey, partnering with Azure, as well as using other state-of-the art tools to successfully make these changes.
This person will help create IT design solutions for business units and functions, building technology domain requirements aligned to the Enterprise Architecture framework, as well as key Strategy and long term roadmaps. This team are responsible for the digital design and build out of capabilities for key applications, and driving downstream development of these key changes.
The team also helps support the development, maintenance, communication and implementation of the solution designs, as well as conducting in-depth technical reviews, and bringing together key expertise to ensure designs are fit for purpose.
Key Requirements;
- Proven track record working in Technology Solution Design, from an applications perspective.
- Experience within a wide variety of IT functions, including system analysis, development and project management.
- Understanding of industry best practice and trends together with their application within a business context.
- Knowledge of a wide variety of technologies including several of the disciplines in strategic IT architecture covering either application, infrastructure, data or security architecture with evidenced practice of at least two domains.
- Any experience of working across Financial Service is beneficial, but not essential
-
Application Support Lead (Fixed Income) - Financial Services
Sterlings are currently partnered with an Investment Bank who are looking to hire a Senior Application Support Analyst Lead, to join their Front Office Technology Team.
This person will lead the support team who provide support and maintenance across various desks and multiple asset classes including credit and interest rate derivatives, credit default swaps, currency swaps and interest rate swaps and well as cash equities.
The team are also responsible for helping improve processes, fixes and enhancements, and Co-ordinate software releases in UAT and Production environments.
Other duties include updating support documentation and owning the development once released.
This person will operate as a Player/Coach, bringing to the table a mix of hands-on technical and business knowledge, people leadership, project and communication skills, developing deep knowledge of applications, architecture, up and downstream flows, as well as being a critical esculation point.
Experience required;
- Strong Application Support experience within a Financial Trading environment.
- Solid Supervisory / Management / team leadership experience in technology support of Capital Markets trading and related functions.
- Solid business knowledge of derivative products (interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, exchange traded futures and options, convertible bonds).
- Proven technical analysis and investigatory skills with ability to work within a high-pressured environment. Stack includes Ulinx/Linux and SQL Server
You can also use your social account to sign in. First you need to:
Accept Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.