Data Platform Developer

Northamptonshire, England
£45k - 55k per year
Northamptonshire, England
PermanentTech

Data Platform Developer

Data Platform Developer
Midlands | Hybrid

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join a growing technology team responsible for delivering and enhancing customer data solutions that support business-critical operations. This role will focus on building scalable, secure, and reliable data platforms.

Working closely with engineers, architects, product teams and business stakeholders, you will play a key role in designing integrations, improving data quality, and delivering robust data services that underpin customer engagement and decision-making

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and maintain enterprise data integration solutions that support reporting, analytics and operational processes.

  • Build and optimise data pipelines to ensure the timely and accurate movement of data across platforms.
  • Develop integrations between enterprise applications, data platforms and cloud services to enable secure and efficient data sharing.

  • Implement data quality controls, validation processes and monitoring solutions.
  • Support the maintenance, performance optimisation and reliability of production environments.
  • Contribute to platform architecture, technical roadmaps and engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and resilient solutions.
  • Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
  • Ensure compliance with data governance, security and privacy requirements.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation to support operational excellence.

 

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data integration and customer data solutions.
  • Strong SQL and data modelling expertise.
  • Experience working with ETL/ELT tools and modern data integration platforms.
  • Experience developing REST APIs.
  • Proficiency in a programming language.
  • Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.
  • Understanding of cloud-based data platforms and distributed architectures.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of event-driven architectures and streaming technologies.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake or Databricks).
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.

 

What's on offer

  • Competitive salary and annual bonus potential
  • Plenty of variety and scale
  • Employee wellbeing programme
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • A solid benefits package