Job Title
Data Ops Engineer
Hybrid (3 Days in office)
Overview
Ocho is partnering with a global financial services organisation to hire a Data Ops Engineer to support critical surveillance data platforms across trading and communications.
This is a high-impact role focused on building and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines that underpin market abuse surveillance. You'll work across both structured and unstructured data, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance in a highly regulated environment.
The role sits at the intersection of data engineering and operations, working closely with engineering, compliance and surveillance teams to deliver reliable, audit-ready data systems.
Key Responsibilities
* Design, build and optimise end-to-end data pipelines across multiple data sources
* Implement data quality, validation and reconciliation processes
* Ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness of data across surveillance systems
* Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform or CDK
* Monitor pipelines, investigate data issues and resolve anomalies
* Implement failover and recovery strategies across critical data flows
* Work with stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions
* Ensure data governance, lineage and auditability standards are met
* Support integration with surveillance platforms and data lake environments
Person We Are Looking For
* Strong experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines in financial services environments
* Experience working with trade, order or messaging data
* Strong AWS experience (Lambda, S3, Glue, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EKS)
* Strong programming skills in Python or Java, with excellent SQL
* Experience with data pipeline tools such as Airflow, dbt or Spark
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery
* Strong understanding of data quality, governance and monitoring
* Ability to work across engineering, data and business teams
Desirable Experience
* Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis
* Exposure to market data or communications platforms (Bloomberg, ICE, Symphony, Teams)
* Experience with observability tools such as Grafana
* Knowledge of regulatory environments and financial markets
* Experience with Snowflake, Qlik Sense or data cataloguing tools
Role Details
* Permanent role
* High-impact position within a global financial environment
* Opportunity to work on critical surveillance and compliance systems
* Strong collaboration across engineering, data and business teams
Apply here or reach out to Aaron Somers at Ocho for more information via LinkedIn.
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