Senior Data Engineer

The Role

As our Senior Data Engineer, you'll build Murmuration's data platform: the pipelines, models, and warehouse that turn raw platform and payments data into reporting that credit unions, regulators, and our own product can rely on. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll be our first data hire, with a lot of say in how the data platform is built

About Murmuration

Murmuration is a new technology company building the core platform that credit unions run on. We provide the software, payments, and data infrastructure that lets a credit union offer its members modern digital banking without having to build or run the technology itself.

Credit unions are member-owned and rooted in their communities, but many still operate on systems that are decades old, which limits what they can offer their members. We're building the alternative.

We're a new company, putting our platform and our first engineering team in place now, with the backing of an established group. For people who join early, that means a real say in the product, the architecture, and how the company works.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines (batch and streaming) from our platform, payments, and third-party sources
• Build and own our data warehouse / lakehouse and the models behind reporting and analytics
• Look after data quality, lineage, and governance, which matter a lot in a regulated financial setting
• Build the data behind the regulatory and financial reporting that credit unions and regulators need
• Work with engineers and the wider business to make clean, well-modelled data easy to get at
• Put in place data security, access controls, and privacy practices in line with GDPR and FCA
• Set things up so analytics and AI/ML can be built on top later
• Help choose the data architecture and tooling as one of the first engineers in the team

What you'll bring to Murmuration

• Solid experience as a Data Engineer building production data pipelines and warehouses
• Strong SQL and proficiency in a programming language for data work (e.g. Python)
• Experience with a modern data stack (e.g. dbt, Airflow, Spark) and a cloud data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• A good understanding of data modelling, ETL/ELT, and data-quality practices
• Awareness of data governance, security, and privacy, ideally in a regulated setting
• Comfortable taking ownership at an early stage

Standout candidates will also have...

• Experience working with financial, payments, or regulatory data
• Experience with streaming data (e.g. Kafka) and real-time pipelines
• Experience building data for regulatory reporting
• Experience enabling analytics or machine learning on a data platform

Benefits

• Salary of £50,000 – £75,000 depending on experience
• 30 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working from our Manchester office
• Company pension scheme
• An early, hands-on role building a new platform and team
• Structured career path with support for ongoing learning and development