Cloud Data Platform Architect Lead

1 month ago


Wrexham, Wrexham, United Kingdom Chetwood Bank Full time

We are looking for an exceptional software engineer with extensive data experience to join the Data Platform team at Chetwood Financial Bank as Staff Engineer (Tech Lead). As part of the engineering leadership you will contribute to the technology vision for Chetwood and help to set the bar for all of the engineering work our data engineering team does.

You will provide technical leadership for data engineering, helping the team to understand & align their work to achieving the business goals and working with them to ensure we design and build robust, reliable, maintainable and secure systems.

About Chetwood Financial Bank

Chetwood Financial Bank has been challenging the way financial services firms should operate since its launch in 2016. From day one, they've been focused on helping customers underserved by the mainstream banks, creating highly targeted products to meet their specific needs.

Today, Chetwood focuses on mortgage and savings products. They understand real people and their real lives, and their simple, clear approach is designed to help customers make sense of their money.

The company is a secure, stable, and well-funded bank backed by a large investor. They generate funding using retail deposits through their savings brand, SmartSave.

Data Platform Team

You and your team will develop and maintain Chetwood's shared Data Platform infrastructure in AWS, handling enterprise-scale data from numerous sources. The Chetwood Data Platform operates as a hub for our data, providing tooling to make onboarding and leveraging our data quick, easy and safe for data producers and data consumers.

The team will use various AWS technologies including Lambda, S3, LakeFormation, Glue, Step Functions, Athena, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, QuickSight, RDS, and Redshift. You will also have the opportunity to leverage OpenSource and/or third party software solutions to accelerate time to value and reduce total cost of ownership.

Key Responsibilities
  • Maintain and improve data governance within the cloud estate
  • Architect and document data systems, sharing designs via Technology Design Authority for review and approval
  • Help manage the trade-offs when shipping new products and features to market – balancing business priorities, customer needs, and ensuring quality
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

  • Hands-on experience of modern data platform architectures
  • Excellent experience working with AWS technologies
  • Highly proficient in developing with Python
  • Good experience of building CI/CD pipelines, especially via GitHub actions
  • Understanding of how to architect resilient, highly available, and efficient data pipelines
  • Good communication skills to communicate with engineering teams and stakeholders
  • Problem-solving skills to tackle complex engineering problems and designing & implementing large scale systems
  • Automation & efficiency skills to increase productivity and flow by removing manual work
  • A quality mindset to care about building high-quality systems and culture
  • Care for colleagues and willingness to coach/mentor others
  • Skilled in SQL and aware of data privacy and banking regulatory requirements
Salary and Benefits

Chetwood Financial Bank offers a competitive salary of £110,000 per annum, plus benefits including 25 days holiday PLUS your birthday off, pension contribution with Royal London, life assurance, private medical, dental, and optical health insurance with Axa, hybrid working options, and free breakfast available.



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