Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

Senior Software Engineer

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Senior Software Engineer working in one of our data teams
• You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working solutions working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You’ll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
• Mentoring and training other team members on engineering best practices 

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• Leadership in applying engineering best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences in a simple way
• Expertise in the modern data stack covering advanced SQL, data modelling, database optimisation, Python pipelines, Airflow orchestration and dbt transformation
• Proficiency in designing, building and operating cloud‑native data platforms on Azure using services such as Synapse, Azure Data Factory and AKS
• Extensive experience delivering scalable batch and streaming data solutions using distributed processing frameworks such as Spark and PySpark

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

14/04/2026

Experience Level

Senior Level