Data Engineer - Media (Snowflake, CI/CD, Python, SQL)

Robert Walters are supporting a fast-growing international advisory business in the search for a Senior Data Engineer to join their expanding Technology & Innovation function in London.

This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative and modern engineering environment where data is treated with the same discipline as software product development. The business is investing heavily in building a scalable cloud-based data platform and is looking for an engineer who enjoys ownership, automation and building maintainable systems within a lean, high-performing team.

The organisation operates globally across London, New York, Singapore and India, supporting major enterprise clients with analytics, technology and operational transformation initiatives.

The Role

You will play a key role in the development and evolution of a modern Snowflake-based data platform, helping migrate legacy workflows into scalable, automated and version-controlled engineering solutions.

The role combines hands-on engineering, platform optimisation and engineering best practice, with strong emphasis on CI/CD, testing, automation and maintainability.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and data products within Snowflake
• Developing automated CI/CD deployment workflows and embedding testing practices into the engineering lifecycle
• Supporting the migration of legacy data workflows into modern cloud-native architecture
• Managing and optimising Snowflake performance, compute and access controls
• Building maintainable ETL/ELT solutions using Python and SQL
• Contributing to infrastructure automation and reproducible environment management
• Working closely with analysts and data scientists to translate business requirements into engineering solutions
• Establishing engineering standards, documentation and development best practice across the team

About You

The successful candidate will bring strong modern data engineering capability alongside an engineering-first mindset and a passion for automation, maintainability and scalable delivery.

You will ideally have experience across:

• Snowflake data platform engineering
• Python development for data pipelines and automation
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions
• SQL optimisation and data modelling
• Automated testing frameworks and data quality validation
• Engineering best practice including version control and modular development
• Modern ELT tooling such as dbt
• Cloud-based data environments
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform (desirable)
• Workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Prefect or Dagster (desirable)

This role would suit someone coming from a modern cloud-native data engineering environment who enjoys taking ownership and helping shape engineering standards within a growing business.

Package & Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Annual bonus
• Private healthcare
• Pension
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Flexible working options
• Work abroad options
• Additional annual leave purchase scheme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Strong long-term progression opportunities

If you would like to discuss the opportunity further, please apply directly or contact Robert Walters for a confidential conversation.

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