Senior Data Platform Engineer | AWS Data Pipelines & ML

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data engineering firm in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and optimising scalable data pipelines. This role involves close collaboration with Data Science teams and utilizing AWS technologies, including EMR and SageMaker. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in data engineering, strong Python skills, and a solid understanding of data governance principles. The position offers opportunities for innovation and career growth.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data engineering within AWS cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS big data technologies such as EMR, S3 and SageMaker.
• Proficiency in Python for building scalable data pipelines and processing frameworks.
• Experience with Apache Spark for distributed data processing.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable batch and real-time data pipelines.
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT design patterns and data modelling techniques.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow (ideally deployed on AWS).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD/GitOps practices.
• Proven ability to optimise performance and reduce cloud costs through partitioning, clustering and workload management.
• Understanding of data security principles, including data loss prevention (DLP).

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines for advanced analytics.
• Deliver high-quality, reliable datasets to analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with Data Science team to develop robust data pipelines.
• Leverage AWS technologies to process and orchestrate datasets.
• Embed data loss prevention principles into data pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering in AWS cloud environments

AWS big data technologies (EMR, S3, SageMaker)

Proficiency in Python

Apache Spark

ETL/ELT design patterns

Apache Airflow

Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Performance optimization

Data security principles (DLP)

Tools

Amazon SageMaker

Databricks

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

A leading data engineering firm in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and optimising scalable data pipelines. This role involves close collaboration with Data Science teams and utilizing AWS technologies, including EMR and SageMaker. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in data engineering, strong Python skills, and a solid understanding of data governance principles. The position offers opportunities for innovation and career growth.