Lead Data Platform Engineer - Hybrid (Nottingham, 6mo)

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

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.