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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Platform Engineer - **Company:** Great Yellow - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £48,256.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Graph Database, Machine Learning, Message Broker, Operational Databases, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, Google Cloud, ReactJS, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Event Driven Architecture, Data Lakes, Production Code, Cloudflare, Serverless Computing, Databricks - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5834881304 ## About the Role * Real software engineering experience. We're looking for genuine, hands-on software engineering background: writing, testing, and shipping production code as part of a proper engineering process (code review, CI, deployment.) This is a step beyond scripting or pipeline code written and run solo. It would help to be able to talk through a production feature or service you've designed and shipped, including how it was tested and deployed. TypeScript/JavaScript and React experience is a strong plus; cloud experience is essential, though we're flexible on which (AWS, GCP, Azure, or Cloudflare). * Data engineering depth. Demonstrable experience designing, building, and maintaining production data pipelines across heterogeneous sources, strong SQL and data-modelling skills, and real ELT/ETL experience (e.g. with tools such as dbt or similar). * Architectural judgement. You can reason about operational vs analytical layers, data lake / warehouse patterns, versioning and lineage, and right-sizing infrastructure for a variety-first (not volume-first) problem. * Autonomy. You can take ownership of a work-stream and drive it without the mental load sitting with the leadership team. Typically this means 5+ years of relevant experience, but we care far more about the scope you can hold than the number. * Versatility. You enjoy moving between data engineering and software engineering as priorities shift, and you're happy having a foot in both camps rather than leaning on one. * Communication. You can translate business goals and SME knowledge into technical solutions, and explain trade-offs clearly to a non-engineering audience. * Locality. Within commuting distance of London, able to work 1-2 days a week from our central office. Nice to have * Experience building, deploying, and maintaining machine-learning pipelines in production (the maintenance matters as much as the building). * Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and with vector or graph databases. * Familiarity with a modern data stack: Databricks, dbt, DLT, Unity Catalog or similar. 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