Lead Data Platform Engineer -12 Month Secondment

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Summary

Lead a team building and maintaining data pipelines, data lakes, and cloud infrastructure using AWS, Spark, and DevOps tools for a fintech credit services division.

Experian Credit Services & Verifications are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team for a 12 month fixed-term contract. Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes.

This is a Hybrid, Nottingham based role (40% in the office).

Main responsibilities:

  • Lead an outstanding Agile technical team
  • Build data pipelines and data lake
  • Deliver quality software
  • Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security
  • Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps
  • Codebase ownership
  • Technical Application ownership
  • Strong experience with DevOps & IaC tooling - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Harness
  • Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop
  • Strong experience with AWS cloud services including AWS Glue, S3, Step
  • Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake
  • Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools - BitBucket & Jira
  • Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration
  • Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards
  • Experience analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required
  • Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge, SQS and Lake formation
  • Experience with automated testing methodologies

Benefits package includes:

  • Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
  • Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
  • 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

Experian's people first, inclusive and purpose driven culture is multi award-winning; World's Best Workplaces 2025 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work 26 countries to name a few.

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