Senior Analytics Engineer – Operations

We are seeking a proactive and technically strong Senior Analytics Engineer to establish and evolve operational practices that improve the reliability, scalability, observability and maintainability of the FT’s data and analytics ecosystem.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience improving the reliability, scalability, performance and observability of modern data platforms, pipelines and data products within cloud-based environments.
• Proven experience implementing DataOps, operational engineering, monitoring, observability, or production support practices across data and analytics ecosystems.
• Strong hands-on experience across the end-to-end data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, reporting, analytics and customer-facing data products.
• Experience building scalable operational processes and automation that reduce manual effort, improve resilience and proactively identify issues before business impact occurs.
• Strong understanding of operational lifecycle management for data products and pipelines, including monitoring, optimisation, supportability, technical debt reduction and decommissioning practices.
• Extensive experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT development, or data platform engineering, with strong SQL and Python skills for developing scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Strong experience with workflow orchestration, pipeline tooling and cloud-based data platforms, preferably including Airflow, AWS and/or GCP technologies.
• Strong understanding of core data and analytics concepts, including data warehousing, data modelling, data quality, lineage, metadata and observability.
• Experience assessing, prioritising and coordinating operational improvement initiatives across multiple engineering teams using operational metrics, service health indicators and business impact measures.
• Ability to design and deliver scalable technical solutions within complex, interconnected data ecosystems, balancing reliability, performance, latency and operational impact.

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days paid leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Parental Leave policy
• Food Allowance
• Multisport Card
• Comprehensive in-house training, and external training programs (subject to approval)