Data Platform Engineer

Bupa; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Life insurance

Annual performance-based bonus

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join our digital and data community in Staines or Salford. In this platform engineering role you will help design, build and operate cloud data infrastructure powering analytics and reporting.

You will work with Azure and Snowflake, implement Terraform IaC, and develop CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, contributing to reliability and security in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Terraform with certification or equivalent IaC expertise in cloud delivery.
• Hands‑on Azure data services (Data Factory, Data Lake, Power BI/Fabric).
• Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data platforms.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights.
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain core Azure and Snowflake data platform components.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Build and run CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to platform monitoring, including logging, metrics and alerting.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and data teams to provision secure environments.
• Contribute to runbooks and operational procedures.
• Identify enhancements to automation, performance and reliability.

Skills

Terraform

Azure Data Services

Snowflake

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Monitoring

Scripting

Tools

Terraform Certification

Job description

Job Description: Data Platform Engineer Primary locations: Staines (TW18 3DZ) or Salford (M50 3SP) Flexible / Hybrid working options Permanent | Full-time (37.5 hours) Salary: Neg. depending on experience + 10% bonus + excellent benefits

We make health happen At Bupa, technology underpins everything we do. You'll join a growing digital and data community working across innovative platforms that support colleagues, clinicians, patients and our insurance customers. As part of our enterprise data platform team, you'll help build and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers analytics, reporting and data science across Bupa. This role is ideal for an engineer with hands-on Azure and/or Snowflake experience who is ready to deepen their cloud engineering skills, contribute to automation and platform operations, and work in a highly regulated, mission-driven environment. Please note: This is a platform engineering role rather than a traditional data engineering position. We welcome applicants from data engineering backgrounds with strong platform/IaC skills.

How you'll help us make health happen:

• Support the design, build and maintenance of core Azure and Snowflake data platform components.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, enabling repeatable and automated deployments.
• Build and run CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to platform monitoring, including logging, metrics and alerting through observability tooling.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and elevate where appropriate.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and data teams to provision secure and performant environments.
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks and operational procedures.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying enhancements to automation, performance and reliability.

Key Skills & Experience

~3+ years' experience in platform, cloud, or data platform engineering.

• Mandatory: Strong Terraform experience with a relevant HashiCorp Terraform certification (e.g., HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate) or equivalent demonstrable expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery within cloud environments.
• Hands‑on experience with key Azure data services (e.g., Data Factory, Data Lake, Power BI/Fabric).
• Experience working with Snowflake or other relational cloud data platforms.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or Application Insights.
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python) for automation tasks.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fair and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type: Full time Job Area: IT Locations: Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we'd like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion - they're at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you'll be challenged, you'll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.