Senior Data Engineer

Posted 27 March 2026
LocationCardiff
Job type Contract
Discipline InsuranceTechnology

Job description

Your responsibilities:

  • Evaluating and comprehending data and information from diverse sources and producing innovative, high-quality solutions to problems that meet Business requirements and drive forward the department strategy.

  • Complying with engineering, design and testing standards and practices, and with Admiral IT governance and architectural standards while performing in a heavily regulated environment.

  • Acting on core engineering principles and values (accountability, transparency, consistency, quality, re-usability and an automate where possible attitude).

  • Actively participating in Squad, Chapter and Guild ceremonies and activities.

  • Working as part of a team, being a supportive team member with a positive attitude, engaging with and contributing to company culture and team spirit.

  • Collaboration with all levels of seniority across IT and the wider Business.

  • Being proactive and a self-learner, experimenting and learning from failure, and applying and sharing technical expertise at every opportunity.

  • Being creative, inquisitive, and pushing the boundaries, improving processes at any opportunity.

  • Taking initiative with effective decision making to enable the progression of the department strategy.

  • Being passionate about business intelligence and data.

Your Profile

  • Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Senior Data Engineer having extensive experience in GCP(Google Cloud Platform) data area or any Cloud experience.

  • Creating effective technological solutions for work with big data.

  • Hands-on experience with Python scripting.

  • Hands-on experience on Java.

  • Hands-on experience on Data Flow or Apache Beam.

  • Deep understanding of data concepts primarily inclined towards ETL.

  • Hands-on with ETL/DWH and SQL (any RDBMS)

  • Hands-on experience with any DB should be able to read/understand/alter stored procedures.

  • Proven knowledge of BigQuery.

  • Having experience in Air flow

  • Cloud Functions specialist.

  • Data flow expert with good experience.