Analytics Platform Engineer

LM RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LTD; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

28 days holiday

Pension contributions

Car scheme

Hybrid working

Cheltenham offices

Snacks & social events

Training budget

Long-service benefits

Job summary

LM RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LTD is hiring an Analytics Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve a robust analytics hosting platform. You will support Data Scientists and MLOps teams across diverse technologies in a dynamic environment.

We offer a competitive salary up to £95k DOE, plus bonus, private medical insurance, a pension, and hybrid/ onsite working from Cheltenham. Applicants must hold active eDV clearance and be able to operate onsite in Gloucestershire.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and evolving robust analytics hosting platforms.
• Experience with cloud migration and data management projects.
• Proven ability to work across a variety of technologies and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build and deployment of a new analytics hosting platform.
• Provide hands‑on engineering support to Data Scientists and MLOps teams.
• Resolve issues in existing analytics services and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate on security, scalability and reliability of data systems.
• Support high‑impact projects with flexible and adaptable approaches.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD basics

Data science

MLOps

Spark

Scala

S3

Graph databases

Elasticsearch

Vector stores

OIDC/OAuth

NodeJS

React

High level clearance

Job description

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 indesigning, 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 issueswithin existing analytics services, and provide hands-on engineering support to Data Scientists andMLOps 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 tolead / 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 andhighly variable requirements, potentially using unfamiliar technology, so a flexible style isrequired.

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 developmentcommission
• 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 workspaces, and comfy loungeareas
• 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.

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