Senior Data Platform Engineer: Build Scalable Pipelines

Voltility; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltility is hiring a Senior Technical Engineer to own the data collection platform end-to-end, focused on data engineering and hands-on full-stack work. You will design pipelines that ingest from public and licensed sources and use AI and rules-based extraction to produce structured records at scale.

You will own architecture, improve data quality, and mentor junior engineers as the platform grows, while collaborating with product teams to deliver client-facing data products.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Python and SQL across the stack (data pipelines, APIs, cloud infra).
• Hands-on web scraping and data extraction skills valued.
• Experience building data products/pipelines with strong data quality.
• Ability to translate non-technical specs into build plans and explain trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run the collection platform and architecture: ingestion, extraction, matching, QA flags and storage into the product database
• Work with research leadership to prioritise data points to automate, set quality thresholds, measure coverage and freshness
• Apply mainly LLM-based extraction, scraping and APIs with verification to ensure trustworthy output
• Build tools for researchers to review, correct and approve machine-collected data and iterate from feedback
• Develop tooling to help squads find and track proprietary collection targets (change detection, alerts, entity matching)
• Own reliability, monitoring and cost of pipelines; fix issues as they arise
• Maintain clean, documented code and data models for others to work on
• Mentor junior engineers and set work priorities
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure data flows into client-facing platform

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Front-end tooling

Tools

Codex

Claude Code

Job description

Voltility is hiring a Senior Technical Engineer to own the data collection platform end-to-end, focused on data engineering and hands-on full-stack work. You will design pipelines that ingest from public and licensed sources and use AI and rules-based extraction to produce structured records at scale.

You will own architecture, improve data quality, and mentor junior engineers as the platform grows, while collaborating with product teams to deliver client-facing data products.