Senior Data Platform Engineer (AWS/Spark)

Location: Nottingham, England; hybrid role with 40% office attendance.

Company

hirify.global is a global data and technology company serving markets including financial services, healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, and insurance, with 25,200 people across 32 countries.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and maintain AWS-based data pipelines for fraud-related data assets.
• Ingest and transform data from Snowflake and internal product and data systems.
• Develop data flows, integrations, and automation as new assets are onboarded.
• Work with platform, security, compliance, and data stakeholders to deliver secure, governed, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• Contribute to technical designs, estimates, solution evaluations, documentation, and operational support processes.
• Use Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development; support junior engineers and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Strong experience building data pipelines, data lake solutions, or data platform capabilities.
• Strong experience with AWS data engineering and platform services, including Glue, S3, Step Functions, IAM, Lake Formation, EC2, Lambda, EventBridge, and SQS.
• Strong experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and Jenkins.
• Strong experience developing with Apache Spark or Hadoop.
• Significant programming experience with Scala or Python.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, data privacy, access control, and governance in data platform environments.

Nice to have

• AWS Developer Certification or another relevant AWS certification.
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation expertise.
• Experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as pytest or Scalatest.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservice architectures.
• Experience with sensitive, governed, or regulated data environments.
• Familiarity with data catalogues, metadata management, data marketplaces, or federated data mesh concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time position in the Technology department, reporting to the Director of Engineering.
• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan.
• Pension, Bupa healthcare, Sharesave scheme, and other core benefits.
• 25 days of annual leave, 8 bank holidays, 3 volunteering days, and the option to purchase additional leave.
• Inclusive, purpose-driven, people-first culture and equal opportunity employment.

Hiring process

• Applications and recruitment communications are handled only through authorised hirify.global channels and official hirify.global.com email addresses.
• hirify.global will never request payment during application, interview, assessment, onboarding, or recruitment.