Markets Data Engineer

Role Overview

Join the Market Oversight Directorate to play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. As a Markets Data Engineer, you’ll leverage high-performance pipelines of trading and position data to deliver specialist services, intelligence, and casework across UK markets.

What You Will Do

Transform millions of daily records into model-ready datasets for risk and market analysis, build interactive dashboards and web apps, and empower market abuse, policy, and supervisory teams to make informed decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role offers the opportunity to be involved in shaping how data are harnessed to monitor and supervise firms and markets, and to work on diverse and stimulating issues with a broad range of markets and financial products.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of analysing, joining, validating commercial and regulatory data
• Proficiency with data analytics tools and libraries (Pandas, PySpark, etc)
• Demonstrable data science or engineering experience within a financial markets context, using SQL (Redshift) and Python
• Understanding of financial markets
• Experienced in developing user-friendly analytical products

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• Flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle