Lead Data Platform Engineer -6 Month Secondment

Experian; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation package

Pension

Healthcare (Bupa)

Sharesave scheme

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Experian is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer in a hybrid role based near Nottingham. You will lead an Agile technical team, build data pipelines and a data lake, and deliver high-quality software while coordinating with risk, security and compliance teams to meet GDPR/PCI DSS standards.

You will own the codebase and technology roadmaps, ensuring scalable, robust data platforms across the Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with DevOps and IaC tooling.
• Proficient in Apache Spark and Hadoop.
• Strong AWS Cloud experience (Glue, S3, Step).
• Experience building data pipelines and data lakes.
• Proficient in Scala or Python; API integration.
• Familiar with Bitbucket and Jira.
• Commitment to SOLID coding practices.
• Experience with automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile technical team.
• Build data pipelines and data lake.
• Deliver quality software.
• Collaborate with risk, security, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Understand overlapping technical requirements and help build technology roadmaps.
• Codebase ownership.
• Technical application ownership.

Skills

DevOps

IaC tooling

Scala or Python

Data pipelines

Data lake

API integration

SOLID design

Testing methodologies

Cloud architecture

Big data analysis

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Jenkins

Harness

Apache Spark

Hadoop

AWS Glue

S3

Step

Bitbucket

Jira

Job description

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

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.

This is a 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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