Data Platform Engineer

Ethiq; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethiq in London is seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer to own and operate a Databricks Lakehouse, hybrid work with 2 days per week onsite. You will focus on reliability, governance and cost management, not just data engineering on top of the platform.

The role requires 3+ years running Databricks in production, fluency in Terraform, and a solid grasp of FinOps, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR considerations. Platform ownership duties emphasize cross-team collaboration and scalable architecture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on administering Databricks in production.
• Fluent with Terraform and related CI/CD workflows.
• Strong FinOps understanding and cost governance.
• Knowledge of SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR considerations.

Responsibilities

• Provision and operate Databricks workspaces, clusters, SQL warehouses.
• Own Unity Catalog: schemas, security, lineage, audit.
• Build Terraform modules for Databricks + CI/CD automation.
• Tune Spark/Delta/Photon to manage DBU spend.
• Support MLflow, model serving and feature store for ML/GenAI.

Skills

Databricks admin

Terraform

FinOps

Security/compliance

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Job description

Databricks Platform Engineer | London (Hybrid, 2 days/wk) | Up to £75K

Own a Databricks Lakehouse platform, not just build on top of one.

We're looking for a platform engineer who lives and breathes reliability, governance, and cost — not a data engineer who happens to use Databricks.

What you’ll actually do:

• Provision and operate Databricks workspaces, clusters, SQL warehouses
• Own Unity Catalog: schemas, row/column-level security, lineage, audit
• Build real Terraform modules for Databricks + CI/CD automation
• Tune Spark/Delta/Photon to cut DBU spend without slowing teams down
• Support MLflow, model serving and feature store for ML/GenAI work

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Have 3+ years hands-on administering Databricks in production (not just running notebooks on it)
• Can talk Terraform fluently — and have the scars to prove it
• Understand FinOps, not just "make it faster"
• Know SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR aren't just acronyms

This is platform ownership, not pipeline building. If you're the person other engineers come to when Databricks breaks — not the person building on top of it — let's talk.