Senior Platform Data Engineer - Integrations & Cloud

53 Stations; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Altana is building an AI-powered network for trusted supply chains. The Platform Operations & Compliance team integrates data products with customers to deliver insights and scalable data pipelines essential for modern, secure cross-border trade.

You will lead the end-to-end design, development, and operation of distributed data systems, guiding engineers, data scientists, and product managers. You will also drive security reviews, cost controls, and governance across deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or closely related roles.
• Experience designing and maintaining complex data models from varied sources.
• Proven track record delivering end-to-end data ingestion and standardization at scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy and improve distributed, big-data pipelines powering network analysis and ML.
• Drive scalability and evolving requirements across customer deployments.
• Support reliability, cost controls and security reviews for client integrations.
• Act as technical expert in client-facing meetings bridging government needs and architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists and product managers.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and best practices for data pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering

Big data pipelines

Cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Security & governance

Leadership

Collaboration

Tools

AWS

Azure

Git

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Altana is building an AI-powered network for trusted supply chains. The Platform Operations & Compliance team integrates data products with customers to deliver insights and scalable data pipelines essential for modern, secure cross-border trade.

You will lead the end-to-end design, development, and operation of distributed data systems, guiding engineers, data scientists, and product managers. You will also drive security reviews, cost controls, and governance across deployments.