Data Engineer at Computappoint, London, 6 Months, £570 per day

• London - 1 or 2 days per week onsite - City of London
• 6 months contract
• £570 per day - Outside IR35

Senior Application Developer
London - Hybrid working (1 - 2 day per week office visit required)
6 months contract - £570 per day - Outside IR35

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Application Developer to design and build a robust PostgreSQL-based data platform that will underpin our investment reporting, risk analytics, regulatory disclosures and performance measurement.
This is a genuinely high-impact, greenfield opportunity. You will have real ownership of the platform design and lead the migration away from Databricks and Excel-driven processes - leaving a lasting mark on infrastructure that sits at the heart of our investment operations.

What You'll Be Doing
You will lead the design and build of a scalable, secure PostgreSQL data platform to support:

• Portfolio holdings and valuations
• Performance and attribution reporting
• Risk analytics
• Regulatory and trustee reporting
• Operational data governance

You will migrate structured data from Databricks (Delta Lake/Spark) and replace Excel-based workflows with automated, controlled pipelines - ensuring accuracy, auditability and compliance with regulatory requirements at every step.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement a secure PostgreSQL-based data platform
• Lead migration from Databricks and spreadsheet-based reporting processes
• Design dimensional models for investment, holdings, pricing and performance data
• Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Python
• Implement data validation, reconciliation and audit controls
• Optimise performance for reporting and analytics workloads
• Ensure compliance with FCA and TPR regulatory expectations
• Implement role-based access controls and data security standards
• Establish monitoring, backup and disaster recovery processes
• Work closely with investment, risk and finance stakeholders

Essential experience

• 5+ years in data engineering, application development or data platform roles
• Strong PostgreSQL expertise, including performance tuning, indexing and partitioning
• Experience building financial or investment data platforms
• Strong SQL and Python skills
• Experience migrating data from cloud analytics platforms such as Databricks
• Solid understanding of data modelling, including star schema and SCD handling
• Experience working in regulated financial services environments

Desirable

• Background in pensions, asset management or institutional investments
• Familiarity with performance measurement and attribution concepts
• Experience with Airflow or dbt
• Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS or Azure)
• Understanding of data governance frameworks

About You

• Detail-oriented with a strong data quality mindset
• Comfortable working in highly regulated environments
• A clear communicator who can engage confidently with non-technical stakeholders
• Proactive and pragmatic - you solve problems rather than just flag them

Why Join Us

• A rare chance to modernise core investment data infrastructure from scratch
• A high-visibility role working directly with senior stakeholders across investment, risk and finance
• A stable, purpose-driven organisation with a long-term outlook
• Flexible hybrid working with only occasional London office visits required

Interested? We'd love to hear from you.