Data Platform Engineer: Scale Pipelines & Trust

Rocketscience; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension via Salary Sacrifice

Optional Private Medical, Dental, and视

Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays and冬季

Job summary

Rocketscience in Cardiff is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and improve reliable data systems for partners and internal teams.

You will focus on data pipelines, data modelling, data quality, observability, and making data trustworthy, with opportunities to explore adjacent areas such as backend services or infrastructure as needed. This is a hybrid role in Cardiff with in-office and home-based working.

Qualifications

• Extensive data engineering experience designing and operating data platforms.
• Ability to speak with stakeholders and translate requirements into technical tasks.
• Comfort with ambiguity and learning new tools quickly.
• Experience in the games industry is useful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable data pipelines and platforms for games.
• Develop telemetry pipelines, analytics platforms, and data warehouses.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and plan delivery.
• Ensure data quality and observability across data systems.

Skills

Data engineering

Data modelling

Data quality

Observability

Stakeholder communication

Adaptability

Python

SQL

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

Databricks

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Airflow

dbt

AWS Glue

Step Functions

Spark

Hadoop

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Job description

Rocketscience in Cardiff is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and improve reliable data systems for partners and internal teams.

You will focus on data pipelines, data modelling, data quality, observability, and making data trustworthy, with opportunities to explore adjacent areas such as backend services or infrastructure as needed. This is a hybrid role in Cardiff with in-office and home-based working.