Data Platform Engineer

The Data Platform Engineer will be responsible for building and managing the environment for the data engineers to operate in, improving the technical landscape and effectiveness of the data platforms across the data team.

The Data Platform Engineer will be experienced in managing and governing the quality and compliance of data whilst providing technical leadership for the team data and analytics team.

Key aspects of the role will include:

• Manage all aspects of the Data Platform Team within the wider Data Operations Team, Inspire and guide the Data & Analytics Team to embed best practice
• Implement and manage multiple tiers, development, test, pre-production, production environments across the teams data platforms.
• Integrate new data pipelines into the data platform ensuring consistency in design standards.
• Liaise with internal data governance and security teams to ensure that we are moving towards an approved compliant infrastructure, follow agreed standards and processes to ensure the value of data initiatives can be realised in a compliant, high quality and consistent manner.

About you:

You will be an experienced Data platform Engineer who has a passion for infrastructure, software and data and a track record of setting up complex data environments.

• META data management
• Alteryx, Qlik, R Studio - analytics workbench
• Platform management
• Data Governance
• Software engineering

The Data Platform Engineer is paying up to £65K + benefits and can be fully remote although some travel to the office would be expected.