Data Platform Engineer

Data Platform Engineer

Greater Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days onsite)

Salary up to 60K

We are a Manchester-based technology and market research company looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our growing team!

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve the data platform, including performance, architecture and design, and take ownership of implementation.
• Design, architect and build internal platform tooling to support best‑practice development and delivery of data products.
• Develop scalable cloud‑native solutions using AWS technologies.
• Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure using Python.
• Work with Apache Spark and Apache Airflow for data orchestration pipelines.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and/or AWS Cloud Formation.
• Manage IAM setups and contribute to cloud security best practices.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product and operations teams to align on scope and deliverables.

• 3+ years of professional Python engineering experience focused on AWS‑based data platforms.
• Strong experience with Dev Ops, cloud engineering and running production data platforms.
• Hands‑on experience provisioning and managing Apache Airflow
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• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  , automated testing and agile software development practices.
• Comfortable working with large and complex datasets while breaking down challenging technical problems collaboratively.
• Exposure to AI‑assisted development tools to enhance coding, reviews, productivity and documentation.

Salary up to 60K, Hybrid working (2 days a week onsite), 25 days holiday + bank holidays, Life assurance and workplace pension, + much more!