Senior Data Platform Engineer

Robert Half International Inc.
Winchester, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Winchester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Google BigQuery
Cloud Database
Continuous Integration
Information Engineering
Data Infrastructure
ETL
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Data Flow Control
Github
Monitoring of Systems
Python
Sage ERP
Netsuite
Operational Databases
Cloud Services
Salesforce
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Data Ingestion
Cloud Monitoring
Snowflake
Terraform
Data Pipelines
Pagerduty

Job description

Robert Half Technology are assisting a telecommunications business to recruit a Senior Data Platform Engineer on a 9-month contract basis. Hybrid working - Hampshire/London based. ASAP start., * The Senior Data Platform Engineer will take full ownership of the production data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, infrastructure, and observability.

  • Design, build, and deliver scalable data pipelines across CRM, ERP, and billing systems.
  • Lead platform readiness activities ahead of a critical NetSuite cutover, including hypercare support.
  • Build and maintain integrations across Salesforce / Ability (CRM), NetSuite / Sage X3 (ERP), and Billing / BSS platforms.
  • Implement and manage Reverse ETL workflows using Hightouch.
  • Manage supplier data ingestion processes via SFTP and cloud-based services.
  • Ensure strong platform monitoring, alerting, reliability, and operational readiness.
  • Operate as a senior individual contributor and own a core engineering workstream end-to-end.
  • Produce high-quality technical documentation and support BAU handover activities.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery teams to ensure successful programme delivery. Profile

Requirements

  • The Senior Data Platform Engineer will have 8+ years of Data Engineering experience within complex enterprise environments.

  • Strong experience with cloud-based data warehouse technologies, ideally BigQuery, although Snowflake and Redshift experience will also be considered.

  • Hands-on experience with GCP technologies including BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, and Cloud Functions.

  • Strong Python development experience alongside modern ELT tooling such as Fivetran.

  • Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tooling, including Terraform and GitHub Actions.

  • Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling such as Cloud Monitoring and PagerDuty.

  • Proven experience integrating CRM, ERP, and Billing/BSS systems.

  • Experience delivering critical cutover and hypercare phases within large-scale transformation programmes is essential.

  • Comfortable operating as a senior IC / workstream owner with strong delivery discipline.

  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills. Desirable

  • Experience within telecommunications, MSP, or managed services environments.

  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering tooling such as Cursor or Claude., * Composer

  • GitHub

  • CI/CD

  • Dataflow

  • BigQuery

  • Terraform

  • Python

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