Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Enabled, Cloud & On-Prem

Baillie Gifford & Co; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Baillie Gifford & Co in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead engineering across a data platform estate spanning Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server. You will drive automation, architecture, and security across cloud and on‑prem environments, with a focus on reliability and scalable data delivery.

The role requires deep technical depth in one or more platforms, the ability to mentor engineers, and strong problem solving.

Qualifications

• Significant experience engineering, administering or developing enterprise data platform technologies in production environments.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake or PostgreSQL with ability to develop across a broader estate.
• Strong understanding of data platform architecture, performance, capacity, availability, resilience, backup and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical contributor across data platform services, providing engineering leadership and trusted technical guidance.
• Shape the technical direction of the data platform estate, improving tooling and addressing technical debt for reliability.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

PowerShell

Python

Shell

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Azure

Job description

Baillie Gifford & Co in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead engineering across a data platform estate spanning Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server. You will drive automation, architecture, and security across cloud and on‑prem environments, with a focus on reliability and scalable data delivery.

The role requires deep technical depth in one or more platforms, the ability to mentor engineers, and strong problem solving.