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Senior Platform Engineer

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Posted 9 days ago, valid for 5 days
Location

Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1DJ, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Senior Data Platform Engineer position is primarily remote, requiring only one day a month in-office attendance.
  • The salary for this role ranges from £70,000 to £85,000.
  • Candidates should have strong Java skills and experience with live-streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis.
  • A solid understanding of event-driven architecture and familiarity with CI/CD practices is essential for this position.
  • A Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience is required, along with exposure to MLOps and Kubernetes being a significant advantage.

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Location: Primarily Remote (1 day/month in-office)Salary: £70,000 - 85,000

Join a cutting-edge Data Platform Engineering team working on real-time analytics and microservices architecture to power one of the most sophisticated martech solutions in the industry.

About the Role:

Reporting directly to the Platform Engineering Manager, you'll be a vital part of a team that enables real-time data processing and analytics. This role involves developing and maintaining microservices, capturing user events and feeding them into a Snowflake-powered analytics platform.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Developing microservices that handle real-time data ingestion from APIs into the data warehouse
  • Working with live-streaming data
  • Writing clean, efficient Java code (Python is a bonus!)
  • Enhancing and scaling the experimentation framework to support data science and ML operations
  • Ensuring high-quality, accurate data delivery across data platforms
  • Collaborating with analytics engineers and data scientists to enable fast insights
  • Participating in a CI/CD pipeline to deliver high-velocity, production-ready systems

This Role Requires:

  • Strong Java skills
  • Experience with live-streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink or Kinesis
  • Solid understanding of event-driven architecture
  • Experience with CI/CD practices and tools
  • Familiarity with microservices and modern cloud-based platforms
  • Exposure to MLOps and Kubernetes is a big plus
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.