Senior Data Engineer · Bath, UK

I turn complex data into trusted products.

I build pragmatic data platforms that people can rely on—from raw ingestion and robust dbt models to self-service analytics, customer-facing products and applied AI.

Core technologies

  • Python
  • SQL
  • dbt
  • AWS
  • Data Products
  • AI
Mark Jackson
Currently Senior Data Engineer at KYND
10+ years building data platforms
90% reduction in AWS cost on a major analytics platform
100k+ financial clients supported by a new data platform
£500k–£1m new ARR supported by customer-facing data products

Selected impact

Platforms that move organisations forward.

My best work combines sound engineering, a clear understanding of the business problem and the judgement to keep solutions as simple as they can be.

Seccl 2022—2024

Senior Data Analytics Engineer

A new financial data platform built from the ground up.

Established ingestion and Redshift warehouse architecture for financial transactions covering more than 100,000 clients. Built the transformation layer in dbt and enabled operational, marketing and regulatory reporting.

MoveGB 2018—2022

Senior Data Engineer / Data Lead

Data foundations for product and growth.

Built the data warehouse and lake from scratch. Partnered with Acquisition on user journeys, conversion funnels and clickstream behaviour while developing self-service reporting and a collaborative-filtering recommendation system.

Genius Digital 2014—2017

Senior Software Developer

90% lower cost. Twelve times faster.

Redesigned an Apache Spark analytics platform for TV data, cutting daily processing from six hours to 30 minutes while reducing client AWS costs by 90%.

How I work

Engineering depth, commercial context.

Data platform foundations

Pragmatic architectures, reliable pipelines and well-structured transformation layers designed for the organisation that will operate them.

dbt · Airflow · Dagster · AWS · Iceberg

Trusted data products

Testing, documentation, reconciliation and clear definitions that make internal and customer-facing data dependable.

Data quality · Modelling · BI · Governance

Growth and self-service

Reusable data models and tools that help teams explore acquisition, conversion, product behaviour and performance independently.

Funnels · Clickstream · Looker · QuickSight

Applied AI

Practical use of LLMs, RAG and embeddings in products and operational workflows, with attention to quality and cost.

LLM APIs · LangChain · RAG · Embeddings

Technical leadership that builds capability

I set clear engineering standards, translate varied stakeholder needs into reusable solutions and mentor people towards greater ownership. I particularly enjoy helping operational teams develop the data skills and automation mindset to move into analyst and analytics engineering work.

Selected projects

Building beyond the day job.

Product engineering2025—Present

Buzforge

An AI-assisted social content platform with multi-provider LLM integration, cost-aware prompting and multimodal image retrieval.

  • TypeScript
  • AWS Lambda
  • Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Embeddings
Conversational AI2023

Cricket AI Assistant

A personality-driven cricket assistant combining live match data with retrieval-augmented generation on serverless infrastructure.

  • Python
  • LangChain
  • RAG
  • AWS

Get in touch

Let’s build something useful.

Interested in data platforms, analytics products or practical AI? I’m always happy to have a thoughtful conversation.