Senior Platform Engineer - Azure Data Platform

London Stock Exchange Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial markets infrastructure company is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to enhance a cloud-native data platform in Edinburgh. You will leverage technologies like Azure, Databricks, and Kafka to manage data pipelines for scalable analytics. Successful candidates will have over 5 years of hands-on experience with Azure and a background in data-driven environments. This role offers the opportunity to influence technical direction and contribute to innovative solutions in a collaborative team atmosphere.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of experience in building and operating scalable systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks for data workloads.
• Familiarity with Kafka, event-driven architectures and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Work on a cloud-native data platform for real-time and batch processing.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize query performance on large datasets.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and secure delivery of the platform.

Skills

Azure

Apache Spark

Data pipelines

SQL

Python

Scala

Kafka

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Databricks

ADLS Gen2

Cosmos DB

Job description

A global financial markets infrastructure company is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to enhance a cloud-native data platform in Edinburgh. You will leverage technologies like Azure, Databricks, and Kafka to manage data pipelines for scalable analytics. Successful candidates will have over 5 years of hands-on experience with Azure and a background in data-driven environments. This role offers the opportunity to influence technical direction and contribute to innovative solutions in a collaborative team atmosphere.