Fastmarkets
Financial Services
SeniorDataEngineer
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“Senior Data Engineer at Fastmarkets. Skills: Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Dbt, Python. Model data pipelines. Build data pipelines”
Industry & Context.
Excellent problem-solving skills
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
High standard of expertise in SQL, High standard of expertise in Python, Specialist knowledge of modern approaches to delivering data projects using a code-first approach
Nice to Have
GCP Professional Data Engineer, AWS Data Analytics, Databricks Certified, Dbt Certified
What You'll Do.
Write custom connectors
Leverage data-loading tools
Operationalise enterprise data model
Embed data quality checks
Embed data validations
Embed exception handling
Manage CI/CD workflows
Use zero-copy cloning
Use containerised development environments
Implement RBAC policies
Identify best practices
Promote best practices
Recommend improvements
Leverage AI-assisted development tools
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Data Platform team; Technology function; Data Architecture, Engineering & AI; Data Engineering team; Technology & Infrastructure teams; Editorial and Pricing teams; BI & Analytics teams; Product and Commercial teams; Consultancy partners; Snowflake technical account team; Third-party vendor support
Communication Scope
Effective communication
Process & Methodology
DataOps
Full Job Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond. The Role * The Fastmarkets Data Platform team sits within the Technology function and is responsible for developing and delivering the company’s data strategy through data engineering, insights, analytics, and business intelligence. The team has built the organisation’s entire modern data platform from scratch and continues to evolve it to support Fastmarkets’ growth and AI ambitions. Reporting directly into the Head of Data Architecture, Engineering & AI, we are looking for the right candidate to model and build our data pipelines and transformations. This is a fantastic opportunity to join us and contribute to a high-performing workstream delivering transformational change across both BI and our monetizable data assets. You will work with modern technologies and frameworks – with input to help deliver and adapt processes that enable a true “DataOps” environment and development experience. The Data Engineer will ensure that data is cleansed, tested, and delivered in accordance with Fastmarkets and industry best practice. In addition, the Data Engineer will enable monitoring via the observability platform and ensure that notifications and alerts are appropriately configured. We actively leverage AI tools across the data engineering workflow, including Anthropic Claude for documentation, code generation, and c
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