Data Platform Engineer
Job in
London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-06-16
Listing for:
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Full Time, Part Time, Contract
position Listed on 2026-06-16
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, AWS, Data Warehousing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
London (Hybrid)
6 Month Contract
£(Apply online only)/day (Inside IR35)
Data Platform Engineer needed with strong AWS cloud platform migration and Terraform expertise.
6 Month Rolling Contract based in London (Hybrid), with occasional travel to the Leeds office.
Hybrid Working - 3-4 days/week remote (WFH) + 1-2 days/week working from the office in London.
A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects:
In-depth Data Engineering experience + AWS cloud data platform migration experience.
The role will focus on Data Engineering, cloud platform migration, infrastructure automation + supporting the delivery of large-scale data processing solutions.
Supporting a major Data platform modernisation programme including migration of data pipelines, notebooks + data workloads from legacy Databricks environment to modern AWS cloud-based data platforms.
Strong Terraform + Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills including developing + maintaining Terraform code to support data platform deployments.
Supporting deployment of data platform components, jobs, permissions + environment configurations.
Analysing current Data Engineering solutions + identifying data migration requirements.
Onboarding datasets, users + workloads onto target platform.
Data Engineering:
Python, PySpark, SQL, Data Pipeline Development, ETL/ELT Design, Data Modelling, Data Quality, Data Validation.
AWS Cloud Platform, S3, IAM, CI/CD concepts, Dev Ops principles, Agile Delivery.
Advantageous
Skills:
Databricks, Palantir Foundry, Foundry Pipeline Builder, Ontology concepts, Delta Lake, Secure Data Environment (SDE) experience, NHS / Healthcare data experience.
Government / (url removed) / Public Sector domain experience strongly preferred.
Must be active SC Cleared or fully eligible to undergo the full SC Security Clearance process
Additional Information / Benefits
550-600/day (Inside IR35)
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