Senior Data Engineer
Novatus Global
Data Science
London, UK
Posted on May 31, 2026
Job Overview
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be developing our configuration-driven data platform in Databricks, enabling non-engineers to define regulatory logic, and our Snowflake data warehouse, ensuring scalability, auditability, and fitness for client-facing regulatory use cases. You’ll be writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code that follows best practices. As a senior member of the team, you will be providing technical leadership and mentorship to your colleagues.
You’ll join at a pivotal stage as we modernize our data infrastructure, migrating from Python scripts and MySQL to Databricks and Snowflake. Our systems power regulatory reporting for major financial institutions, requiring precision, traceability, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
About You:
Work Across Disciplines: You won't be confined to a single track- you will develop a broader skillset across our capabilities and offerings.
Solve Problems that Matter: Work on complex challenges, where your thinking, analysis, and execution have real impact.
Flat, Visible, Collaborative: We keep the structure flat, so you can collaborate directly with senior leaders and experienced specialists. Your work is visible, your perspectives are valued, and you will see the impact of your contributions every day.
A Place for Builders: This is a great place for people who enjoy driving results and taking ownership. If you are driven to add value and help grow our business, you will enjoy a rewarding experience that recognises your contributions.
Perks & Benefits
Novatus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010.
We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive. Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to ensure fairness and consistency for all candidates.
Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the application and interview process, and candidates are encouraged to contact Human Resources to discuss any specific requirements.
This commitment is embedded in all aspects of our employment practices, including recruitment, compensation, professional development, promotion, and workplace conduct.
Novatus’ Privacy Policy
By applying for this role, you agree that we may process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Novatus is a Series B scale-up RegTech SaaS provider and boutique advisory practice, enabling financial services firms to solve complex challenges and redefine what’s possible through expert-led technology and consulting. Across both our technology and consulting services, Novatus delivers practical solutions to some of the most complex regulatory, data and operational challenges in financial services.
Our SaaS platform, En>ACT (short for Ensuring Accurate, Complete and Timely reporting), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation, providing real-time, independent oversight of transaction reporting across all global regulatory regimes. En>ACT is the only real-time assurance solution that tests 100% of transactions and 100% of fields, replacing sample-based reviews and static PDF reports delivered months after the event with live, actionable insights. This helps firms remediate quickly, reduce risk, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence. Already trusted by more than 45 firms worldwide, the platform is scalable, proven, and designed for both business and technical users.
Alongside our SaaS offering, our unique model delivers consulting services to solve complex challenges, combining deep expertise, ownership and delivery to create lasting change. Our expertise spans Strategy & Operations, Data & AI, Risk & Resilience, Compliance, Transaction Reporting, and ESG. We embed ourselves within client teams to deliver both insight and execution, taking ownership of outcomes and driving measurable impact.
Since our launch in 2019, we have scaled rapidly, creating space for our people to grow the business. Backed by North American private equity investment, and partnerships with the London Stock Exchange Group and Snowflake’s global data platform, we are shaping the future of financial services through innovation in both consulting and technology. Now a team of 120 globally, our growth plans do not stop here: we are looking for top-tier talent to join us on our journey and enable our next phase of success.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be developing our configuration-driven data platform in Databricks, enabling non-engineers to define regulatory logic, and our Snowflake data warehouse, ensuring scalability, auditability, and fitness for client-facing regulatory use cases. You’ll be writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code that follows best practices. As a senior member of the team, you will be providing technical leadership and mentorship to your colleagues.
You’ll join at a pivotal stage as we modernize our data infrastructure, migrating from Python scripts and MySQL to Databricks and Snowflake. Our systems power regulatory reporting for major financial institutions, requiring precision, traceability, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve our configuration-driven data framework in Databricks and our Snowflake warehouse.
- Mentor Junior members of the team, aiding their growth and acting as a force multiplier through your technical leadership.
- Design, build, and optimize data pipelines using Databricks, Kafka, Python and PySpark.
- Ensure pipelines are auditable, lineage-aware, idempotent, and resilient in regulated environments.
- Implement robust data quality controls including testing, validation, monitoring, and alerting.
- Drive performance optimization across Spark and Snowflake workloads.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Regulatory teams to translate requirements into scalable technical designs.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tools.
About You:
- Experience designing auditable, reproducible data pipelines in regulated or high-integrity environments using Python and PySpark.
- Able to write and optimize complex SQL queries on large data sets.
- Strong data modeling and warehouse design fundamentals.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms and orchestration tools.
- Comfortable translating complex regulatory requirements into technical specifications.
- Ability to work autonomously with a high degree of accountability for the systems you build and maintain.
- Experience with Kafka or other event streaming platforms.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building new data platforms or modernizing legacy systems.
- FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background.
Work Across Disciplines: You won't be confined to a single track- you will develop a broader skillset across our capabilities and offerings.
Solve Problems that Matter: Work on complex challenges, where your thinking, analysis, and execution have real impact.
Flat, Visible, Collaborative: We keep the structure flat, so you can collaborate directly with senior leaders and experienced specialists. Your work is visible, your perspectives are valued, and you will see the impact of your contributions every day.
A Place for Builders: This is a great place for people who enjoy driving results and taking ownership. If you are driven to add value and help grow our business, you will enjoy a rewarding experience that recognises your contributions.
Perks & Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance (via AXA): includes mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access
- Life Insurance - 4× salary (via Unum)
- Unum’s Help@Hand: includes GP access, medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings and discounts, mental health support, bereavement counselling, and cancer support services for you, your partner, and your child(ren)
- Salary sacrifice childcare and nursery scheme (via YellowNest)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity)
- Professional qualification sponsorship
- Accelerated career progression based on readiness and performance, not tenure or time spent in role
- Holiday entitlement increases with tenure
- Flexible hours with core collaboration time
- Paid volunteering leave
- Gym & fitness discounts
- Bi-annual socials
- Office snacks and drinks
- Interest-based working groups to collaborate and innovate
Novatus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010.
We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive. Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to ensure fairness and consistency for all candidates.
Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the application and interview process, and candidates are encouraged to contact Human Resources to discuss any specific requirements.
This commitment is embedded in all aspects of our employment practices, including recruitment, compensation, professional development, promotion, and workplace conduct.
Novatus’ Privacy Policy
By applying for this role, you agree that we may process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Novatus is a Series B scale-up RegTech SaaS provider and boutique advisory practice, enabling financial services firms to solve complex challenges and redefine what’s possible through expert-led technology and consulting. Across both our technology and consulting services, Novatus delivers practical solutions to some of the most complex regulatory, data and operational challenges in financial services.
Our SaaS platform, En>ACT (short for Ensuring Accurate, Complete and Timely reporting), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation, providing real-time, independent oversight of transaction reporting across all global regulatory regimes. En>ACT is the only real-time assurance solution that tests 100% of transactions and 100% of fields, replacing sample-based reviews and static PDF reports delivered months after the event with live, actionable insights. This helps firms remediate quickly, reduce risk, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence. Already trusted by more than 45 firms worldwide, the platform is scalable, proven, and designed for both business and technical users.
Alongside our SaaS offering, our unique model delivers consulting services to solve complex challenges, combining deep expertise, ownership and delivery to create lasting change. Our expertise spans Strategy & Operations, Data & AI, Risk & Resilience, Compliance, Transaction Reporting, and ESG. We embed ourselves within client teams to deliver both insight and execution, taking ownership of outcomes and driving measurable impact.
Since our launch in 2019, we have scaled rapidly, creating space for our people to grow the business. Backed by North American private equity investment, and partnerships with the London Stock Exchange Group and Snowflake’s global data platform, we are shaping the future of financial services through innovation in both consulting and technology. Now a team of 120 globally, our growth plans do not stop here: we are looking for top-tier talent to join us on our journey and enable our next phase of success.