Data Platform Engineer

Senior Data Platform Engineer

⚡ Industry: Tech Consultancy

🏢 Location: London (Hybrid or Remote within UK)

💸 Salary: £500-550 per day

👔 Interview Process: 2 stages

💻 Overview:

Join a highly regarded consultancy that designs and builds large-scale, data-driven platforms for major tech and media brands. The team blends engineering excellence with a lean, delivery-focused mindset — smart people, low ego, and a strong culture of autonomy.

🎯 What You’ll Do:

• Build and optimise backend systems that scale.
• Lead cloud-native infrastructure projects on Google Cloud using Terraform .
• Develop and maintain backend services in Golang and Python .
• Set up CI/CD pipelines , observability, and automation with GitLab / DataDog .
• Partner with data engineers to deliver high-performance ingestion and transformation pipelines.

🧠 What You’ll Bring:

• Strong background in backend development (Golang/Python).
• Solid experience across Google Cloud , Terraform , and CI/CD .
• Proven ability to design for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Comfortable collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and clients.

💡 Bonus Points For:

• Exposure to Spark , Dataflow , or Looker .
• SRE or platform automation experience.