Data Platform Engineer

Data Platform Engineer - London / Bracknell / Birmingham / Leeds / Manchester / Livingston - Hybrid - SCC Flex Contract

We are seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to support high-profile transformation and technology initiatives across a complex enterprise environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a Data Platform Engineer to join a dynamic client programme, driving the design, implementation and optimisation of modern enterprise data platforms. The successful Data Platform Engineer will play a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making by delivering scalable, secure and resilient data platform capabilities that support analytics, AI, business intelligence and digital transformation objectives across the organisation.

Your responsibilities as the Data Platform Engineer:

• Design, build and maintain enterprise-scale data platforms that support business-critical workloads and data services.
• Develop and manage cloud-based and hybrid data platform environments across Azure, AWS and/or GCP.
• Implement and support data storage, processing and integration solutions including data lakes, data warehouses and lakehouse architectures.
• Configure, maintain and optimise platform infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, security and performance.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, developers, analysts and business stakeholders to deliver robust platform capabilities.
• Design and automate platform deployment, configuration and management processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps best practices.
• Support the implementation of modern data platform services including Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse Analytics, Redshift, BigQuery and related technologies.
• Monitor platform health, performance and availability, proactively identifying opportunities for optimisation and improvement.
• Ensure all platform solutions comply with security, governance, regulatory and data management standards.
• Support data transformation programmes and cloud migration initiatives through the adoption of modern platform engineering practices.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues and provide technical expertise to resolve incidents and minimise service disruption.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, architecture reviews and strategic data platform initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and best-practice guidance across platform engineering technologies, processes and methodologies.

As a successful Data Platform Engineer, you will have:

• Proven experience working as a Data Platform Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar role within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise data platforms in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Expertise in cloud technologies including Microsoft Azure, AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong knowledge of data platform services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery or equivalent technologies.
• Experience building and managing data lakes, lakehouse architectures, data warehouses and analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of data integration, ETL/ELT processes and data engineering concepts.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of security, governance, compliance and operational best practices within enterprise data environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions within complex and highly regulated environments.
• Relevant cloud, platform or data certifications are highly desirable.

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