Analytics Platform Engineer

Developer - Analytics Platform Engineer Up to £95k DOE OR £500-600 Inside IR35 Principal and Senior Level Gloucestershire Onsite Full-time, 37.5 hours per week Active eDV Clearance Required We are seeking an Analytics Platform Engineer to join our team, where you will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving robust analytics hosting platform that supports mission-critical solutions. In this role, you will develop, test, deploy, and enhance platform capabilities, resolve issues within existing analytics services, and provide hands-on engineering support to Data Scientists and MLOps teams working across a range of technologies.

You will operate in a dynamic environment with varied and sometimes unfamiliar technical challenges, requiring strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and a practical engineering mindset to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions that enable data-driven outcomes for our client. The following is a headline list of the type of tasking that the person in this role may be expected to lead / facilitate / support.

This list is not exhaustive; rather an outline of responsibilities that may need ownership. In this role, you will:
Work on high impact projects focused on cloud migration and data management. Build scalable, secure systems and contributing to the full software development lifecycle. Design, develop, test, and deployment of a new analytic hosting platform. Bugfixes and feature requests for existing mission facing analytics. Engineering support to MLOps engineers and Data Scientists. These are unpredictable and highly variable requirements, potentially using unfamiliar technology, so a flexible style is required.

In this role, we are looking for a mixture of the following skills:
Python Kubernetes Docker CI/CD basics (Gitlab pipelines) Data science and MLOps knowledge (highly desirable) Spark (highly desirable) Scala (highly desirable) S3 (highly desirable) Graph databases (highly desirable) Elasticsearch (highly desirable) Vector stores (highly desirable) OIDC/OAuth (highly desirable) NodeJS (highly desirable) React (highly desirable) Will be required to hold a higher level of clearance.

What we offer:

Competitive salary with personal & company bonus scheme, plus business development commission Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance 28 days holiday (plus option to buy up to 2 extra weeks) Generous pension contributions with access to a personal financial advisor Available Car scheme with Octopus Energy Hybrid and flexible working arrangements Beautiful central Cheltenham offices with parking, flexible work spaces, and comfy lounge areas Always-stocked fridge with drinks and snacks Fun, collaborative team culture with regular social events and parties Opportunities to grow with a generous annual training budget Amazing long-service benefits, including extra holiday, higher pension contributions, retention bonuses, and charitable contributions.