Senior Data Platform Engineer

Robert Half Technology are assisting a telecommunications business to recruit a Senior Data Platform Engineer on a 9-month contract basis. Hybrid working – Hampshire/London based. ASAP start.

Role

• The Senior Data Platform Engineer will take full ownership of the production data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, infrastructure, and observability.

• Design, build, and deliver scalable data pipelines across CRM, ERP, and billing systems.

• Lead platform readiness activities ahead of a critical NetSuite cutover, including hypercare support.

• Build and maintain integrations across Salesforce / Ability (CRM), NetSuite / Sage X3 (ERP), and Billing / BSS platforms.

• Implement and manage Reverse ETL workflows using Hightouch.

• Manage supplier data ingestion processes via SFTP and cloud-based services.

• Ensure strong platform monitoring, alerting, reliability, and operational readiness.

• Operate as a senior individual contributor and own a core engineering workstream end-to-end.

• Produce high-quality technical documentation and support BAU handover activities.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery teams to ensure successful programme delivery.

Profile

• The Senior Data Platform Engineer will have 8+ years of Data Engineering experience within complex enterprise environments.

• Strong experience with cloud-based data warehouse technologies, ideally BigQuery, although Snowflake and Redshift experience will also be considered.

• Hands-on experience with GCP technologies including BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, and Cloud Functions.

• Strong Python development experience alongside modern ELT tooling such as Fivetran.

• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tooling, including Terraform and GitHub Actions.

• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling such as Cloud Monitoring and PagerDuty.

• Proven experience integrating CRM, ERP, and Billing/BSS systems.

• Experience delivering critical cutover and hypercare phases within large-scale transformation programmes is essential.

• Comfortable operating as a senior IC / workstream owner with strong delivery discipline.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Desirable

• Experience within telecommunications, MSP, or managed services environments.

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tooling such as Cursor or Claude.

Company

• Leading telecommunications business undergoing a large-scale data transformation programme.

• Hybrid working environment with offices across Hampshire and London.

Salary & Benefits

The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications, or training.