Data Engineer

The role

You will own and evolve the Data Lake infrastructure and ETL pipelines. You will migrate production workloads into the Data Lake and redesign data structures to improve performance and reduce costs.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the Data Lake infrastructure and ETL pipelines
• Migrate production workloads into the Data Lake
• Partner closely with Data Science to enable scalable data usage
• Redesign data structures and clustering strategies
• Optimize infrastructure to reduce AWS costs
• Build robust, production-grade data systems using modern AWS tooling

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundation with applied knowledge of SOLID principles in data systems
• Proven experience building and maintaining Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines
• Hands-on expertise with Spark and AWS Glue
• Highly proficient in SQL, particularly within transactional RDS environments
• Experience implementing governance, standards, and best practices across data platforms
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end and working cross-functionally with technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Ideally with AWS DMS

Benefits

• Equity
• 25 days holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• One month paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Employee loan
• Free gym membership
• Team wellness budget

About the company

Abound is redefining consumer lending in the UK and beyond using advanced AI and Open Banking data. The company has issued over £1.3bn in loans and is backed by investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank.