Data Platform Engineer 201482

Newcastle upon Tyne Source: WhatJobs

£73,000–£84,000

Newcastle (2 days per week in office) | £73,000 - £84,000 + Benefits

Are you a hands-on Data Platform Engineer who enjoys combining technical ownership with platform strategy? This is an opportunity to join a growing data and innovation function where you will play a key role in shaping and scaling a modern Azure-based data platform that supports advanced analytics and AI initiatives across the business.

They are a large international organisation investing heavily in their data and AI capabilities. Their newly established innovation and data team is focused on delivering data-driven products, improving business decision-making, and enabling future AI solutions.

You will join a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment where Data Engineering, Data Science, AI, and Product teams work closely together. The culture is hands-on, delivery-focused, and offers the opportunity to influence technical direction while working alongside experienced leaders in data and technology.

The Role

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of the overall health, scalability, and performance of the data platform while remaining hands-on with technology and operational delivery.

Responsibilities include:

Managing and enhancing a modern Azure-based data platform
Ensuring platform reliability, security, governance, and operational excellence
Supporting and optimising services across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and related technologies
Working closely with infrastructure, networking, architecture, and security teams
Enabling Data Engineers to build and deploy scalable data solutions efficiently
Driving platform improvements, monitoring, observability, and automation initiatives
Supporting release management, CI/CD practices, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks
Investigating performance issues, troubleshooting technical challenges, and implementing sustainable solutions
Contributing to platform architecture decisions and clearly communicating technical rationale to stakeholders
Promoting best practice across support, governance, documentation, and operational readiness

Your Skills & Experience

Strong commercial experience supporting cloud-based data platforms within Azure environments
Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF)
Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, or similar modern data platform technologies
Knowledge of platform architecture, scalability, performance optimisation, and operational support
Understanding of CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Git, and deployment automation
Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management processes
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code approaches such as Terraform
Scripting experience using technologies such as Python or PowerShell
Ability to troubleshoot issues across networking, security, storage, identity, and integration layers
Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly