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Senior Data Engineer
Simple Machines · London, United Kingdom
About The Role
Join our team as a Senior Data Engineer, where you'll be responsible for the technical direction, platform design, and architectural decision-making of modern, cloud-native data platforms. You'll work closely with clients to understand their problems and shape solutions, while also setting engineering standards and best practices across teams. This is a hands-on role that requires deep experience with Spark, modern data platforms, and cloud data services.
- Design and build greenfield data platforms, real-time pipelines, and data products for clients.
- Own the end-to-end architecture of modern, cloud-native data platforms, making high-impact architectural decisions.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, translating business needs into pragmatic engineering decisions and shaping solutions.
- If you enjoy solving hard data problems, shaping modern architectures (data mesh, data products, contracts), and delivering real outcomes — this is your lane
- Deep experience with Spark and modern data platforms (Databricks / Snowflake)
- Solid grasp of cloud data services (AWS or GCP)
- Strong Python and SQL
- Strong data modelling skills and architectural decision-making ability
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi)
- CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale data platform architectures
- Comfortable balancing trade-offs between performance, cost, and complexity
- Data testing and quality frameworks (dbt, Great Expectations, Soda)
- Strong consulting instincts — able to challenge assumptions and guide clients toward better outcomes
- Built and operated large-scale data pipelines in production
- Comfortable with multiple storage technologies and formats
- Experience in consulting or professional services environments
- If you’re a senior data engineer who wants to build properly, think clearly, and deliver real outcomes - we should talk
- Comfortable mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical culture
- Strong data modelling capability and architectural judgement
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