Platform Architect

K&K Talents is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in the UK who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Platform Architect - Platform Architect (CICD, Snowflake, Confluent Cloud)

Location: London, UK (Hybrid Remote)

Employment type: Permanent Employment

Compensation – Base Salary + Competitive (including bonus)

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Define enterprise platform architecture, reference architecture, standards, and engineering guardrails.

•Build modernization roadmaps for Data, Streaming, Integration, and Platform Engineering ecosystems.

•Drive architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and platform transformation initiatives.

•Establish governance, security, resilience, scalability, and cost-optimization frameworks.

•Lead Snowflake architecture covering security, governance, RBAC, data sharing, performance optimization, and multi-environment strategy.

•Define enterprise data platform standards and operational best practices.

•Guide warehouse sizing, workload management, performance tuning, and cost optimization.

•Design event-driven architecture using Confluent Cloud.

•Define topic governance, schema management, security controls, HA/DR, and cluster strategy.

•Establish enterprise integration patterns using Kafka, Kafka Connect, APIs, and streaming architectures.

•Define and implement CI/CD standards using GitHub Actions.

•Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, release governance, and quality gates.

•Establish platform engineering practices supporting continuous delivery and automation.

•Define Data Mesh principles, domain ownership models, governance, metadata management, and interoperability standards.

•Establish integration architecture across Snowflake, Kafka, cloud platforms, APIs, ETL/ELT, and downstream systems.

•Collaborate with business and engineering teams to enable scalable data products.

Required

•Multiple years in Platform Engineering, Cloud, Integration, or Data Platforms.

•must have 1 large program where the person has implemented a multi technology platform for data on cloud

•Strong expertise in Snowflake and/or Confluent Kafka.

•Experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and event-driven architecture.

•Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

•Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platforms.

•Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native platforms.

•Deep understanding of Data Mesh, Data Governance, Security, and Compliance.

•Experience with observability, monitoring, and platform operations.

Note: Applicants for employment in UK should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.