Senior Data Platform Engineer

Robert Half Technology are assisting a leading telecommunications business to recruit a Senior Data Platform Engineer on a contract basis. Hybrid working - 2 days on-site in Hampshire every other week.

Role

• The Senior Data Platform Engineer will take ownership of the end-to-end production data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, infrastructure, and observability.


• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines across CRM, ERP, and billing systems.


• Lead platform readiness activities ahead of a critical NetSuite cutover and provide support during hypercare phases.


• Build and maintain integrations across Salesforce / Ability (CRM), NetSuite / Sage X3 (ERP), and Billing / BSS platforms.


• Implement and manage Reverse ETL workflows using Hightouch.


• Manage supplier data ingestion through SFTP and cloud-based services.


• Ensure strong monitoring, alerting, platform reliability, and operational excellence.


• Take ownership of a core engineering workstream and drive delivery through to completion.


• Produce high-quality technical documentation and support BAU handover activities.


• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, third-party suppliers, and project teams to deliver key programme objectives.

• The Senior Data Platform Engineer will have 8+ years of Data Engineering experience within complex enterprise environments.


• Strong experience with cloud data warehouse technologies, ideally BigQuery, although Snowflake and Redshift experience will also be considered.


• Hands-on experience with GCP technologies including BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, and Cloud Functions.


• Strong Python development experience alongside modern data integration tools such as Fivetran.


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tooling, including Terraform and GitHub Actions.


• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling such as Cloud Monitoring and PagerDuty.


• Proven experience integrating CRM, ERP, and Billing/BSS systems.


• Experience delivering critical cutover and hypercare phases within large-scale transformation programmes is essential.


• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and own key technical workstreams.


• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

• Leading telecommunications business undergoing a major data transformation programme.


• Opportunity to play a key role in delivering a production-ready data platform ahead of a critical business systems transformation.


• Hybrid working model with 2 days on-site in Hampshire every other week.

The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications or training.

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