UBS

Data Lead

UBS  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

United Kingdom

Investment Banking

City

London

Job Type

Full Time

Your Career Comeback

We are open to applications from career returners. Find out more about our program on ubs.com/careercomeback.

The team

  • A highly technical and innovative team leading automated trading in e-Rates
  • Focused on maximising automation and performance in order to drive e-Trading revenues
  • Operating in a highly agile manner, releasing to production multiple times per day
  • The team is known for being collaborative and diverse, with a mandate to deliver meaningful change

Your skills and experience

  • 8+ years of hands-on data engineering in production environments, with strong, idiomatic Python used for reliable, well-tested systems (not exploratory notebooks).
  • Design and operation of large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines, including orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, or similar) and reliability patterns such as retries, backfills, and exactly-once semantics.
  • Deep experience with Azure, including AKS, Helm, EventHub, observability tools (e.g. Log Analytics) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform).
  • Advanced experience operating Delta tables at scale, covering transaction semantics, schema evolution, partitioning, and compaction, alongside highly optimised analytical query execution using DuckDB or Apache Spark.
  • Production-grade relational database expertise, particularly PostgreSQL (query tuning, indexing, partitioning, replication, and schema design across OLTP and analytics).
  • Strong KDB experience, covering key concepts such as tp/ctp/rdb/hdb and differences between real-time vs historical queries and usage of gateways.
  • Containerised data workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, with reproducible, environment-agnostic deployment of data infrastructure.
  • Analytical data modelling expertise, including dimensional models or data vaults, schema evolution, slowly changing dimensions, and downstream impact analysis.
  • Strong experience managing and troubleshooting environments based on visualization and data analytics technologies such as JupyterHub, PowerBI, Streamlit and Marimo.
  • Batch and streaming processing proficiency, including late data handling, watermarking, backfills, and explicit throughput vs. latency trade-offs.
  • Production data reliability and observability mindset, covering lineage, data quality checks, SLAs, CI/CD for data pipelines, and close collaboration with quants, risk managers, and traders to deliver trustworthy data products.
  • 2+ years of experience in Java, covering react-based applications.
  • Experience delivering business facing solutions enhanced by AI and using AI assisted development (including prompt driven workflows and MCP servers) to reduce context switching and accelerate reliable delivery.
  • You’re curious to explore how AI can improve how we build, deliver, and optimize workflows. You do this with sound judgment – validating outputs and aligning with policies, risk standards, and ethical use.

About us

UBS is a leading and truly global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland. We also provide diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS is present in more than 50 markets around the globe.

We know that great work is never done alone. That’s why we place collaboration at the heart of everything we do. Because together, we’re more than ourselves. Want to find out more? Visit ubs.com/careers.

Join us

At UBS, we know that it's our people, with their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds, who drive our ongoing success. We’re dedicated to our craft and passionate about putting our people first, with new challenges, a supportive team, opportunities to grow and flexible working options when possible. Our inclusive culture brings out the best in our employees, wherever they are on their career journey. And we use artificial intelligence (AI) to work smarter and more efficiently. We also recognize that great work is never done alone. That’s why collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Because together, we’re more than ourselves.

We’re committed to disability inclusion and if you need reasonable accommodation/adjustments throughout our recruitment process, you can always contact us.

Disclaimer / Policy Statements

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.

UBS

About UBS

From gaining new experiences in different roles to acquiring fresh knowledge and skills – at UBS we believe that you should never stop growing and learning because life never stops teaching. We know that it's our people – with their unique backgrounds, skills, experience levels and interests – who drive our ongoing success. Ready to be part of #teamUBS and make an impact? Find out more at ubs.com/careers.

UBS works with individuals, families, institutions, and corporations around the world to help answer some of life's questions – whether through award winning wealth management advisory, investment banking and asset management expertise, or private and corporate banking services in Switzerland*. In June 2023, Credit Suisse became a UBS Group company.

With our large and diverse team operating internationally, we have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries. Although we all come from different backgrounds and specializations, two things unite us: the conviction that we’re stronger together, and the will and curiosity to constantly innovate. That’s the key to us unlocking our full potential (and what we look for in everyone who joins us). It’s also why we’re regularly recognized as an attractive employer.*

* Our awards https://www.ubs.com/awards

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Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Zurich, CH
Year Founded
1862
Website
ubs.com
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