The Senior Data Platform Engineer is a technical leader who empowers data, analytics and product teams across Pepperstone by building and operating the Enterprise Data Platform, ensuring it meets the demanding requirements of high-frequency trading environments and regulatory compliance in financial markets.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent extensive professional experience in data platform engineering
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a data platform, data engineering, cloud or DevOps role, with at least 3 years building production workloads on AWS
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling for managing cloud and data infrastructure
- Proficient with source control and CI/CD practices; comfortable designing reusable pipelines and enforcing quality gates
- Production experience with event streaming and stream processing platforms
- Hands-on experience with cloud data warehousing platforms
- Solid understanding of core cloud services relevant to data platforms: compute, storage, networking, IAM, managed databases, secrets management, and observability
- Ability to design cost-aware architectures and clearly communicate cost trade-offs to engineering and business stakeholders
- Proficiency in at least one programming language used in data platform work (Python, Java or Scala); SQL fluency is essential
Benefits
- Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
- 10 days of Company paid sick leave annually
- 21 days of paid vacation within the first year of employment, increasing to 25 days after one year
- 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
- Comprehensive medical insurance with coverage for your healthcare needs
- Pension fund
- Employee referral bonuses for referring top talent to the company
- Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
- Periodic recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance and achievements
- Frequent events and celebrations
- Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
- Employee Assistance Program & Wellbeing Initiatives
