Senior Data Engineer - Build Scalable Cloud Data Platforms

Boost Talent ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boost Talent is partnering with a data-driven technology organisation to recruit a Senior Data Engineer. The role focuses on building modern data platforms, scalable pipelines and trusted data products that serve internal and external stakeholders.

You'll influence platform strategy, drive engineering best practices and work within cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, observable data services in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive Python development experience with data engineering background.
• Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and modern data platforms.
• Experience with AWS-based data platforms and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data processing workflows.
• Developing and optimising data products that transform complex datasets into trusted, consumable assets.
• Building Python-based services and tooling that support data ingestion, transformation and delivery.
• Contributing to the evolution of a modern cloud-native data platform.
• Defining and promoting standards around data quality, governance, metadata and observability.
• Working closely with software engineering, platform and product teams to improve data accessibility and reliability.
• Supporting production data systems, monitoring and operational excellence.
• Contributing to architectural decisions and helping drive engineering best practice across the organisation.
• Mentoring colleagues and fostering a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Python development

AWS data platforms

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modelling

Data governance

Tools

dbt

OpenSearch

Parquet

AWS S3/Glue

Job description

Boost Talent is partnering with a data-driven technology organisation to recruit a Senior Data Engineer. The role focuses on building modern data platforms, scalable pipelines and trusted data products that serve internal and external stakeholders.

You'll influence platform strategy, drive engineering best practices and work within cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, observable data services in a cloud-native environment.