Lead Data Platform Engineer -6 Month Secondment

JobCubby; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Bupa healthcare

Sharesave scheme

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Experian Credit Services & Verifications in Nottingham seeks a Lead Data Platform Engineer for a 6-month fixed-term contract. Hybrid role with 40% in-office work, reporting to Engineering Director, leading an Agile team to build data pipelines and a data lake while upholding high technical standards.

You will work with AWS, Spark/Hadoop, and DevOps tooling to deliver scalable solutions, ensuring GDPR/PCI DSS compliance and collaboration across risk and security teams.

Qualifications

• DevOps & IaC tooling: Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Harness.
• Apache Spark / Hadoop development experience.
• AWS cloud services: Glue, S3, Step Functions.
• Data pipelines and data lake construction expertise.
• Lifecycle tools: Bitbucket & Jira.
• Scala or Python programming with SOLID principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile technical team delivering high-value data platform work.
• Build data pipelines and data lake components.
• Deliver quality software with secure, compliant practices.
• Collaborate with risk, security and compliance teams on standards.
• Identify overlapping tech needs and help roadmap technology.
• Own codebase and technical application ownership.

Skills

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Jenkins

Harness

Apache Spark

Hadoop

AWS Glue

Amazon S3

AWS Step Functions

Data pipelines

Data lake

Bitbucket

Jira

Scala

Python

SOLID principles

Clean code

Data analysis

AWS Lambda

EventBridge

SQS

Lake Formation

Automated testing

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Job description

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Internal Grade D/EB8

Job Description

Experian Credit Services & Verifications are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team for a 6 month fixed-term contract.

Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes.

Hybrid, Nottingham based role (40% in the office).

Main responsibilities

• Lead an outstanding Agile technical team
• Build data pipelines and data lake
• Deliver quality software
• Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security
• Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps
• Codebase ownership
• Technical Application ownership

Qualifications

• Strong experience with DevOps & IaC tooling - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins , Harness
• Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services including AWS Glue, S3, Step
• Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake
• Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools - BitBucket & Jira
• Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration
• Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards
• Experience analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required
• Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge, SQS and Lake formation
• Experience with automated testing methodologies

Additional Information

Benefits package includes:

• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
• Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

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Role Details

• Employee Status: Regular
• Role Type: Hybrid
• Department: Technology
• Schedule: Full Time