Senior Spark Engineer

Senior Data Engineer - Spark

Contract length: 6 Months

Location: Cannon Street, London

Department: IM - Research and Portfolio Management Technology

Job type: Contract

Your role:

This role sits within the Investment Management Research & Portfolio Management Technology Data Team. The role will support delivering a strategic data platform to migrate existing legacy use cases to, and to enable future required capabilities. The role will involve working directly with the team lead to architect, prototype and scale up implementations. 

This role is appropriate for a Senior Data Engineer capable of taking ownership and a delivering a subsection of the wider data platform. The senior engineer will be very hands on in delivery but will also interface with other areas of the business to unlock new integrations patterns.

About you

• Develop Spark (Pyspark) Data Pipelines  

• Integrate with enterprise data lake (Snowflake) and NoSQL offerings (ElasticSearch, Cassandra, etc...)

• Architect data driven solutions

• Supporting the overall delivery of the projects by liaising with external teams 

Key accountabilities 

• Strong Spark experience.  Implementation will be pyspark but open to candidates who have used Scala

• Strong python developer with good understanding of the ecosystem 

• Experience of modern data stacks (MPP Data Warehousing, Lakehouse) or good exposure to wide variety of NOSQL offerings

• AWS Data Engineering experience 

• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices

• Unit testing and TDD

• Documentation

• Reusable code 

• Architecting data solutions and effective technical influencing

Why Fidelity

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services, and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers around the world. As global leaders, operating in more than 25 locations and with $783.6 billion in total assets, they continually push the boundaries of technology to build an even stronger business. 

Rewards and benefits 

As well as the prestige of working for a global financial services player, you’ll work with some of the smartest tech, expanding your skills and building your experience.  Also, as a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life.

Inclusion and diversity

Fidelity is proud of its achievements as an equal opportunities employer. They care deeply about creating a supportive place where all people feel valued and free to be themselves. A commitment to Diversity and Inclusion is not only right, it's critical for a healthy culture and leads to better business outcomes. That’s why Fidelity has an environment where all differences are welcomed and celebrated.

The Randstad companies are responsible for finding and contracting talent for project roles at Fidelity International. If you are selected for a role, you will be employed by a Randstad company, and will not be an employee of Fidelity International