Senior Data Platform Engineer — Secure Cloud & Real-Time Data

Akersystems; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Company paid medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Annual training allowance

Wellbeing allowance

Virtual GP

Employee Assistance plan

Job summary

Aker Systems is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable data platform capabilities across client delivery projects in the public sector and utilities.

You will work with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, DevOps, and stakeholders to develop cloud-native data platforms supporting batch, real-time streaming, and analytical workloads. This hands-on role emphasizes automation, testing, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience across Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering or related fields.
• Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong programming in Java and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with real-time streaming and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Experience with distributed data processing (Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams).
• Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable data platform components and services.
• Develop reusable patterns and platform components for client delivery.
• Support data ingestion, processing, storage and integration capabilities.
• Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews and engineering standards.
• Ensure platform security, resilience, scalability and observability.

Skills

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Platform Engineer

Java

Python

Kafka

Kinesis

Spark

Flink

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

SQL

NoSQL

Observability

GitHub/GitLab

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub/GitLab

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Aker Systems is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable data platform capabilities across client delivery projects in the public sector and utilities.

You will work with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, DevOps, and stakeholders to develop cloud-native data platforms supporting batch, real-time streaming, and analytical workloads. This hands-on role emphasizes automation, testing, and CI/CD.