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# Data Engineer at General Atlantic 

- **Company:** General Atlantic 
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-02-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalatlantic/jobs/5688348004

## Job description

## About General Atlantic

General Atlantic is a leading global investor with more than four and a half decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 885 companies throughout its history. Established in 1980, General Atlantic continues to be a dedicated partner to visionary founders and investors seeking to build dynamic businesses and create lasting value. Guided by the conviction that entrepreneurs can be incredible agents of transformational change, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with and scale innovative businesses around the world. The firm leverages its patient capital, operational expertise, and global platform to support a diversified investment platform spanning Growth Equity, Infrastructure, and Strategic Solutions. General Atlantic manages approximately $126 billion in assets under management, inclusive of all strategies, as of March 31, 2026, with more than 900 professionals in 20 countries across five regions. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit [www.generalatlantic.com.](https://www.generalatlantic.com.)

## About Actis

In October 2024, General Atlantic acquired Actis, which now operates as its Sustainable Infrastructure business alongside its existing strategies in Growth Equity, Credit, and Climate. Actis is a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, delivering competitive returns for institutional investors and measurable positive impact for the countries, cities and communities in which it operates. Actis invests in structural themes that support long-term, equitable growth in defensive, critical infrastructure across energy transition, digitalization transition, and supply chain transformation. The firm’s decades of global experience, operational know-how and strong culture allows it to create global sustainability leaders at scale. Since inception, Actis has raised $26 billion to invest in a better tomorrow. Actis is a signatory to the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), an investor initiative developed by the UNEP FI. The firm has consistently been awarded the highest rating score in the UNPRI independent assessment. You can learn more about Actis at [www.act.is](http://www.act.is).

## Key Purpose of Role

General Atlantic is seeking an Associate-level Data Engineer to join the Data Strategy team. This role will report to the Senior Vice President, Head of Data Engineering, and will work closely with senior data engineers, product managers, infrastructure, security, and application development teams.

This role will support the design, development, and maintenance of cloud-based data pipelines, integration frameworks, and self-service data platforms. This role is ideal for a technically strong, highly curious engineer who is eager to grow their expertise in modern data engineering tools and best practices while contributing to enterprise-grade data solutions.

## Key Responsibilities (this list is not exhaustive)

Data Integration & Preparation

- Support the design, development, and maintenance of cloud-based data ingestion and integration pipelines
- Build and maintain ETL / ELT workflows using Python, SQL, Spark, and Databricks
- Assist in integrating data from heterogeneous sources including SaaS platforms, APIs, databases, and cloud applications
- Contribute to the development of reusable data integration components and frameworks
- Monitor data pipelines, troubleshoot issues, and support production operations

Data as a Service

- Assist in the development of centralized data services and APIs that enable downstream consumption by analytics, reporting, and application teams
- Support the creation and maintenance of logical data models and service-layer abstractions
- Participate in building batch and near-real-time data processing workflows
- Contribute to modernization initiatives migrating legacy data processes to cloud-native solutions

Self-Service Data Platform

- Help prepare curated datasets for use in data lakes, enterprise data hubs, and data warehouses
- Work with senior engineers to support scalable, performant data storage and compute solutions using Databricks and cloud data services
- Enable reliable data access for analytics, reporting, and data science use cases

Data Design & Development

- Develop and maintain SQL objects, data models, and transformations
- Write clean, maintainable Python code for data processing and orchestration
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to ensure data quality and reliability

While this role description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, Actis reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties from particular roles and assign other duties as necessary.

Knowledge

Background & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 2–4 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical role
- Exposure to financial services or enterprise data environments is a plus

Technical Skills

- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar
- Familiarity with cloud data services (Azure preferred) including data lakes, data warehouses, and orchestration tools
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data from APIs, SaaS platforms, and databases
- Understanding of ETL / ELT concepts, data modeling, and pipeline monitoring
- Exposure to BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is a plus

Professional Skills

- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working collaboratively within cross-functional teams
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

General Atlantic offers a robust reward program to all employees that will support you and your family, maintaining fulfilling, secure and healthy lives now and into the future, which includes but is not limited to medical insurance, retirement savings contributions, mental and physical health resources and an equal pay program.  Additional reward programs, such as annual discretionary bonuses and long-term incentive programs, are available for eligible employees and are offered as recognition for performance and one’s contributions towards the organization’s success. General Atlantic is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

By completing this application, you are consenting to General Atlantic’s processing and use of your personal data. Information on how General Atlantic will use and process your data can be found here: https://www.generalatlantic.com/privacy-notice/

## About General Atlantic 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: General Atlantic is a global investment firm providing patient capital and strategic support to growth companies across equity, credit, infrastructure, and energy transition strategies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (investment firm; not a startup or public company)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States (founded in midtown Manhattan)
- **Founded**: 1980
- **Founders**: Chuck Feeney (entrepreneur and philanthropist); current Chairman and CEO is Bill Ford

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Financial services – growth equity, private credit, sustainable infrastructure, and energy transition investing.
- **Target customers**: Limited partners (institutional investors, endowments, foundations, family offices) and portfolio companies (high-growth businesses seeking capital and operational expertise).
- **Mission/purpose**: “Powering visionary growth” by partnering with entrepreneurs to build long-term, world-changing companies and improving the human condition through patient capital.

## Products & Services
- **Growth Equity**: Core strategy – invests in category-leading companies across technology, healthcare, consumer, financial services, and business services, offering strategic counsel and global platform support.
- **Credit (GA Credit)**: Provides strategic capital solutions (e.g., direct lending, structured credit) to high-quality businesses during key lifecycle phases, launched after acquiring Iron Park Capital and forming Atlantic Park JV.
- **Infrastructure (via Actis)**: Invests in critical infrastructure across energy transition, digitization, and supply chain transformation, focused on long-term, equitable growth.
- **Energy Transition (BeyondNetZero)**: Climate growth fund identifying and supporting high-growth businesses with potential to combat climate change at scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not applicable (private firm). Assets under management (AUM) of ~$126 B as of mid‑2025.
- **Key Metric**: Total capital invested since inception exceeds $121 B.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Sole initial investor was Chuck Feeney (Atlantic Philanthropies); today’s limited partners include global institutional investors, endowments, foundations, and family offices. Strategic partnerships include Iron Park Capital (credit JV) and Actis (infrastructure).
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from pure growth equity into credit (2021) and infrastructure (2024 acquisition of Actis). Opened offices in São Paulo, Singapore, Mexico City, Jakarta, and London. Launched first continuation vehicle in 2023. Over 900 employees across 22 global offices.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Patient, long-term capital**: Founded as a family office with a decades-long investment horizon, enabling a focus on durable value creation rather than short‑term exits.
- **Multi‑strategy platform**: Growth equity, credit, infrastructure, and energy transition – offering portfolio companies and LPs a comprehensive suite of capital solutions.
- **Global reach and local presence**: 22 offices across Americas, Europe, Asia, and Latin America allowing deep sector and regional expertise.
- **Value‑add capabilities**: Dedicated teams for value creation, business operations, and strategic counsel; strong culture of partnership with entrepreneurs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Energy transition and climate**: Scaling BeyondNetZero and infrastructure strategy (Actis) to accelerate net‑zero solutions.
- **Digitization and supply chain transformation**: Investing in infrastructure that enables digital growth and resilient supply chains.
- **Broadening credit and secondaries**: Expanding GA Credit and continuation vehicles to capture private credit market opportunity.
- **Geographic expansion**: Continuing to grow presence in emerging markets (Southeast Asia, Latin America) and deepening existing hubs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, integrity‑driven, and entrepreneurial – values of “innovation, integrity, tenacity, and collaboration” are core. Actively builds an inclusive environment through the IDEA Council and affinity networks.
- **Global opportunity**: Employees work across 22 offices and multiple strategies, with opportunities to rotate or relocate internationally.
- **Philanthropy and purpose**: Founded to “improve the human condition”; the General Atlantic Foundation supports entrepreneurship, climate/disaster relief, and community causes. Giving is embedded in the culture.
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, performance‑driven culture, benefits supporting well‑being and professional development. Roles span investment teams, capital solutions, value creation, and business operations.
- **Work model**: Predominantly in‑office (investment firm culture), with global travel and collaboration expected.

## Sources
1. [General Atlantic – Company site](https://www.generalatlantic.com/)
2. [General Atlantic – Careers](https://www.generalatlantic.com/careers/)
3. [General Atlantic – Our Story](https://www.generalatlantic.com/our-story/)
4. [General Atlantic – Our Culture](https://www.generalatlantic.com/our-culture/)
5. [General Atlantic – Open Roles](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalatlantic)

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