Senior Data Engineer

TL;

DR Kharon is seeking a full-time London-based Senior Data Engineer.

Location: London UK

Annual Remuneration: 95000 - 115000 salary and discretionary annual bonus

Pay Frequency:
Monthly

Probationary Period: 180 days

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid 3-days per week

• Help build large-scale distributed automated data processing systems and data lakes while optimizing for both computational and storage efficiency on AWS Databricks.
• Create data pipelines infrastructure and overall workflow orchestration to pull data from a diverse set of data sources into the Kharon Data Lake.
• Build systems to track monitor and validate the quality of data coming into or going out of Kharon Data Lake.
• Collaborate with engineers architects and data scientists to implement scalable solutions to solve complex problems.
• Interact and develop with internal and external APIs.
• Work with product and business teams to define novel and critical metrics for the business.
• Follow good engineering practices like documentation diagrams and unit/validation tests
• Take full responsibilities for the development deployment adoption monitoring and maintenance of the data systems and services you build.

• 5 years of experience not including internships as a software engineer or a data engineer and a strong passion to learn.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in related fields.
• Experience in Python Pandas PySpark and Notebooks.
• SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases including schema design access patterns query performance optimization etc.
• Experience with data pipeline technologies like AWS Glue Airflow Kafka or other cloud based equivalence.
• Experience with ETL and data warehousing like Databricks Snowflake or equivalent.
• Container-based deployment experience using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience working with or data modeling for graph databases like Neo4J Neptune etc.
• API experience using FastAPI Flask Spring Boot or equivalent.
• Understanding of elasticsearch data and query modeling is a big plus.
• Interests or experience in Geopolitics Sanction Compliance or Financial Risk.

Kharon operates at the nexus of global security and is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.

From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of todays leading global financial and multinational institutions Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.

When you look at any major global crisis event were providing intelligence thats at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way thats meaningful. As the world continues to evolve in complexity so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.

Company Benefits

• Fully-sponsored private health insurance
• Pension plan with 3% employer contribution
• Annual leave plus bank holidays

DISCLOSURES

Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin ethnicity gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation or identity neurodiversity appearances age protected veteran status or status as a qualified individual with disability.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants and employees. If you require any adjustment to participate in the recruitment process…