Data Platform Enablement Engineer

Depop Limited - Nova; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Depop Limited - Nova is seeking a Senior Data Platform (Enablement) Engineer to architect, build, and scale our data platform. You will empower teams with self-serve capabilities and own data transformation tooling, orchestration, and governance across Databricks, Airflow, dbt, and more.

You will collaborate with product data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, and data teams to shape data-as-a-product practices while maintaining data privacy and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience with streaming ecosystems (Kafka, Flink, Confluent).
• Strong programming in Python and/ or Scala with solid engineering practices.
• Experience delivering data governance, observability, and data quality.
• Proven ability to design, build, and scale data platforms and backend infra.

Responsibilities

• Pave a path for data as product with governance tooling.
• Develop microservices, libraries, and data pipelines.
• Design and evolve platform services for data usage across teams.
• Lead initiatives with data scientists, ML engineers, and analytics engineers.
• Uphold operational excellence and incident response for data platform.

Skills

Kafka

Flink

Confluent

Python

Scala

Data governance

Observability

Data platforms

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Databricks

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Depop Limited - Nova is seeking a Senior Data Platform (Enablement) Engineer to architect, build, and scale our data platform. You will empower teams with self-serve capabilities and own data transformation tooling, orchestration, and governance across Databricks, Airflow, dbt, and more.

You will collaborate with product data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, and data teams to shape data-as-a-product practices while maintaining data privacy and governance.