Senior Data Platform Engineer

This Senior Data Platform Engineer role sits at the heart of a multidisciplinary team of scientists, analysts, and engineers. You'll work closely with them to turn complex workflows into robust, scalable systems. It's a hands-on role where you'll create, own, and improve everything from data pipelines to internal tools, helping move the business from early-stage build to a more mature platform.

As Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll take full ownership of the existing data platform and evolve it as the business grows. You'll work across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and internal tools. A big part of the role is turning experimental workflows and scripts into reliable, production-ready systems that scientists can trust and use daily.

You'll manage and extend a GCP-first platform, working with tools like BigQuery, Airflow, dbt, and Terraform. You'll also help build internal applications using Python, FastAPI, and React, giving teams easy ways to trigger workflows and access data. Alongside this, you'll improve data quality, monitoring, and automation, ensuring everything is robust, secure, and scalable.

This role is great for someone with a solid background, loves variation and a new challenge. Sound like you? Apply today!, If this Senior Data Platform Engineer role feels like it could be a good fit and the location works, please feel free to pop an application across and we'll review ASAP!

• Several years of strong experience as a Data Engineer or Platform Engineer in a cloud environment
• Solid Python skills, including building backend services and working with data workflows
• A few years of experience with GCP, including BigQuery and cloud-native tools
• Hands-on experience with Airflow, dbt, and modern data pipelines
• Infrastructure as code experience, ideally using Terraform
• Experience building or contributing to internal tools or application
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills
• Comfortable working in a start-up or scaling environment is a bonus
• Bonus points if you've worked with React, FastAPI, or in scientific or energy domains
• Ability to come into the London office three days per week, * GCP
• Airflow
• CI/CD
• BigQuery
• Terraform
• dbt
• Python

The role offers a salary of up to £100,000 DOE, alongside equity in a growing business with long-term ambition. You'll be joining at a key stage, with strong recent funding and a clear path towards further investment. You'll be required to go into the London office three times per week.