Data Platform Engineer (Azure)

Location: Southampton or London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a wealth management business providing financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management.

What you will do

• Design and implement cloud-native data platform capabilities supporting data engineering, BI and reporting, advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning workloads.
• Build robust, reusable, documented platform components aligned with cloud engineering standards, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Embed security by design through identity and access control, encryption, network security, and privacy controls.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, analysts, data scientists, architects, security teams, and business stakeholders to define and prioritise platform capabilities.
• Improve onboarding, delivery processes, self-service capabilities, deployment pipelines, and engineering workflows.
• Maintain platform availability, performance, and reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident management, logging, metrics, and tracing.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining data platforms in an Azure, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
• Experience delivering federated data capabilities with clear standards and guardrails.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, monitoring, logging, alerting, and platform reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and secure data access patterns.
• Working knowledge of Terraform, Python, SQL, PowerShell, Azure DevOps pipelines, Databricks, Azure services, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and AI Foundry.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment with a focus on integrity, curiosity, collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• 26 days of annual holiday, equivalent to 182 hours.
• Employee incentive scheme and non-contributory pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance, life assurance worth four times salary, and income protection covering 75% of salary less state benefits after 26 weeks of absence.
• Flexible benefits for UK employees available through salary deduction.