Senior Data Platform Engineer — Scale & Innovate with AWS

Mesh-AI Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions company in the UK seeks an experienced Data Platform Engineer to enhance their core data platform. You will own platform initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and implement best practices to improve scalability and efficiency. Ideal candidates have over 4 years in building data platforms, strong AWS knowledge, and proficiency in Python. This position encourages innovation in a fast-paced environment, ideal for passionate problem solvers.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of platform architecture and infrastructure design.
• Experience with cloud-native data stacks on AWS (e.g. S3, Glue, Redshift).
• Solid development experience with Python and knowledge of additional languages.

Responsibilities

• Evolve core data platform, deprecate legacy systems.
• Support implementation of a data platform strategy.
• Own end-to-end platform initiatives from scoping to rollout.
• Drive technical maturity with engineering best practices.

Skills

Data platforms

AWS tech stack

Streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis)

Orchestration frameworks (Prefect, Airflow)

Python programming

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Version control (Git)

Education

AWS certification

Job description

A leading data solutions company in the UK seeks an experienced Data Platform Engineer to enhance their core data platform. You will own platform initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and implement best practices to improve scalability and efficiency. Ideal candidates have over 4 years in building data platforms, strong AWS knowledge, and proficiency in Python. This position encourages innovation in a fast-paced environment, ideal for passionate problem solvers.