How you can help make a better world of work
We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Team in the Data Intelligence Camp. You'll build, enhance and optimise a key data lake platform that will enable storage and preparation of data across billions of data points, powering analytics platforms and reporting systems throughout our organization and helping product teams deliver impactful insights directly to our customers. You'll work at the intersection of big data, platform engineering, and product development.
As part of this team of amazing humans,
You will
- Architect for scale and performance: Design and implement Data Lake platforms that support storage and processing of billions of rows, while maintaining cost efficiency and a pragmatic approach to delivery of solutions and architecture.
- Drive platform evolution: Lead technical decisions that shape Data Lake platforms, balancing performance, security, and developer experience.
- Partner with product teams: Collaborate closely with product teams and engineering teams, data science teams, product managers, key vendors, security and privacy experts to understand their data needs and requirements and agree on solutions to build.
- Champion technical excellence: Drive standards and continuous improvement in a high performing team, setting and meeting a high bar of engineering quality.
- Mentor and grow talent: Guide senior engineers through technical challenges, architecture decisions, and career growth opportunities.
You have
- Proven technical leadership: Track record of designing and implementing Data Lake platform solutions at scale.
- Infrastructure expertise: Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred) including compute, storage, and networking optimisations for data-intensive applications
- Data Platform expertise: Extensive experience with columnar databases like Redshift, including performance tuning, query optimisation, and scaling strategies.
- Modern data engineering experience: Hands-on expertise with modern data processing frameworks, ETL/ELT patterns, observability, and governance tools
- Customer-centric mindset: Experience translating business and user needs into technical solutions that deliver measurable impact.
You are
- Self-motivated and able to work independently, comfortable dealing with ambiguity when necessary. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work effectively and ask for support when required.
- An advocate for the work of your team. You understand that building the platform is only half the job, and that listening to users and driving adoption is essential to success.
- Energised by growing others and helping them to reach their potential.
- Someone who loves collaboration - our teams are cross functional and you’ll be working with other engineers, team leads and product managers to deliver great outcomes together.
- Aligned with our values, check them out here: https://www.cultureamp.com/company#values and demonstrate them through your working practice.
