Senior Engineer, Data Engineering

Novatus Global is a Series B scale-up RegTech SaaS provider and boutique advisory firm, helping financial institutions manage their most complex regulatory requirements. Our flagship SaaS platform, En:ACT (short for Enabing Accurate Compliance in Transaction reporting ), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation across global regimes. En:ACT automates reporting, reconciles data across systems, and maps errors directly to regulatory rules, helping firms remediate quickly, reduce risk, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence. Already trusted by more than 30 firms worldwide, the platform is scalable, proven, and designed for both business and technical users. Alongside our SaaS offering, our unique model delivers consulting services across Risk & Compliance (including Transaction Reporting and Operational Resilience), ESG, Strategy, Data, and Operations. Backed by North American private equity investment, and partnerships with the London Stock Exchange Group and Snowflake’s global data platform, we are shaping the future of regulatory compliance through innovation in both advisory and technology. we are on the lookout for top-tier talent to join us on our journey and enable our next phase of success. As a Senior Data Engineer , you will be developing our configuration-driven data platform in Databricks, enabling non-engineers to define regulatory logic, and our Snowflake data warehouse, ensuring scalability, auditability, and fitness for client-facing regulatory use cases. You’ll be writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code that follows best practices. You’ll join at a pivotal stage as we modernize our data infrastructure, migrating from Python scripts and MySQL to Databricks and Snowflake. Our systems power regulatory reporting for major financial institutions, requiring precision, traceability, and reliability. Design and evolve our configuration-driven data framework in Databricks and our Snowflake warehouse. Design, build, and optimize data pipelines using Databricks, Kafka, Python and PySpark. Implement robust data quality controls including testing, validation, monitoring, and alerting. Drive performance optimization across Spark and Snowflake workloads. Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Regulatory teams to translate requirements into scalable technical designs. Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tools. Experience designing auditable, reproducible data pipelines in regulated or high-integrity environments using Python and PySpark. Able to write and optimize complex SQL queries on large data sets. Strong data modeling and warehouse design fundamentals. Strong software engineering fundamentals (clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, observability) Experience with modern cloud data platforms and orchestration tools. Comfortable translating complex regulatory requirements into technical specifications. Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure. Experience building new data platforms or modernizing legacy systems. FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background. Private Medical Insurance (AXA) – includes mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access Life Insurance (4× salary) with Unum Unum’s Help@Hand: includes medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings and discounts, and cancer support services for you, your partner, and your child(ren) Employee Assistance Program Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity) Accelerated career progression based on performance, not tenure Holiday entitlement increases with tenure Flexible hours with core collaboration time Paid volunteering leave Gym & fitness discounts Quarterly socials, and office snacks & drinks All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010. We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive. This commitment is embedded in all aspects of our employment practices, including recruitment, compensation, professional development, promotion, and workplace conduct. Salary: GBP 60000 - 80000 per year