Genuine hands-on experience in a data operations, production support, or data quality role, ideally within banking or financial services
Comfort working with data pipelines, batch processes or similar production environments, and diagnosing where something has gone wrong
Strong SQL/data skills; comfort investigating and reading data flows across multiple systems
Excellent stakeholder management: able to build rapport quickly, ask the right questions under pressure, and coordinate people across teams to solve a problem
A naturally curious, analytical mindset, someone who drills into root cause rather than accepting "it's broken" at face value
Experience with UAT or parallel-run testing highly regarded
Exposure to Treasury, liquidity or regulatory reporting is a genuine plus but not required