Data Engineer

**About the Business**

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Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £160.5 billion in customer investments (as of September 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

**About the Role**

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Level: 4

Department: COO

Location: Southampton or London

Contract type: Permanent

The role sits within the Chief Data Office (CDO) and reports to the Data Engineering Manager, with technical oversight and guidance provided by a Lead Data Engineer.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting data solutions that enable trusted, timely, and accessible data across the organisation. The role supports Quilter's data strategy by delivering scalable, secure, and resilient data products and services that underpin reporting, analytics, regulatory obligations, operational processes, and digital capabilities.

Working within Agile delivery teams, the Data Engineer collaborates with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Architects, platform teams, and business stakeholders to transform data requirements into high-quality engineering solutions. The role contributes to the continuous evolution of Quilter's cloud-based data platform, leveraging technologies including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Azure Key Vault, Azure DevOps, and related Azure services.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical capability, a proactive approach to problem solving, a commitment to engineering excellence, and a focus on delivering business value through data.

Key Accountabilities

Data Solution Development

• Design, develop, test, and maintain data pipelines, integrations, and data products across the enterprise data platform.

• Build scalable and reusable solutions for data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and consumption.

• Develop and optimise batch, near real-time, and streaming data processing solutions where required.

• Ensure solutions are robust, performant, secure, and maintainable.

• Contribute to the delivery of analytical, operational, and regulatory data capabilities.

Data Platform Engineering

• Develop and maintain solutions using Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Key Vault, and related Azure technologies.

• Support the ongoing enhancement of platform capabilities, standards, frameworks, and reusable components.

• Implement infr...

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