Platform Engineer - PD - Remote

Platform Engineer - £450PD - Remote

Key Responsibilities

Phase 1:
Foundation & Discovery

Legacy Inventory & Triage
Lead the discovery and assessment of approximately 40-50 legacy data sources comprising thousands of tables and jobs. Facilitate structured workshops with business owners to classify assets into Retire, Archive, Deprecate, or Strategize categories.

Business Impact Analysis
Analyse and map complex legacy transformation logic to downstream business outcomes, ensuring critical functionality is preserved within the Core Group's AI-generated migration templates.

Wave Planning
Define and plan migration waves by grouping data products based on business criticality, dependency chains, and delivery capacity.

Phase 2:
Build & Pilot

Logic Validation
Partner with the AI/Automation Lead to validate the accuracy and clarity of GenAI-generated logic explanations, ensuring they are consumable by delivery teams.

Pilot Support
Embed with the first migration team to identify onboarding friction points, provide hands-on guidance, and continuously improve documentation and processes.

Phase 3:
Scale & Support

UAT Orchestration
Act as the primary interface between the Migration Factory and business stakeholders. Plan and manage UAT activities for 50-60 data products across multiple business units.

Defect Triage
Assess and triage defects, clearly distinguishing between technical implementation issues and gaps in business logic or requirements.

Stakeholder Sign-off
Own the "Ready for Production" sign-off process, ensuring business users have confidence in the accuracy, completeness, and usability of the migrated data.

Technical Competencies

Data Literacy
Strong SQL capability with the ability to navigate complex data landscapes and end-to-end data lineage from raw to curated layers.

Platform Knowledge
Hands-on familiarity with modern data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, and ingestion tools such as Azure Data Factory.

AI Familiarity
Experience using, or a strong desire to learn, Generative AI tools for code analysis, logic interpretation, and automated documentation.

Soft Skills & Ways of Working

Workshop Facilitation
Confident leading triage and discovery workshops with senior business and technical stakeholders.

Complex Problem Solving
Able to untangle poor or fragmented data onboarding experiences and turn them into scalable, automated, and repeatable processes.

Ambiguity Management
Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment where responsibilities evolve across discovery, build, and scale phases.

To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn on (phone number removed) or at (url removed).

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