Data Engineer (Data Lake Platform)

Data Engineer (Data Lake Platform)

• Data Engineer role within a fast-moving, cloud-first technology team
• AWS, TypeScript and Python focus with ETL, API design and React contributions
• Hybrid working, Belfast based
• Salary £40,000 to £45,000
• UK work authorisation required

About the Company

Our client is a well-established technology business operating at significant scale, delivering data platform solutions that support complex, high-value business functions across multiple domains. With a clear data strategy and a collaborative engineering culture, this is an organisation investing seriously in modernising its data infrastructure and reducing bottlenecks through automation and smart platform design.

The Role

A hands-on Data Engineer position embedded within a collaborative data lake team, working to build and maintain a secure, centralised data platform that exposes a holistic view of raw, curated and standardised data. You will deliver ETL and ELT ingestion and egress patterns, contribute to API design and implementation, support React frontend development and collaborate on cloud engineering tasks in AWS. This role suits a versatile engineer who is equally comfortable in the data pipeline and contributing to frontend tooling.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain ETL and ELT ingestion and egress patterns for the data lake platform
• Contribute to API design and implementation to enable reliable data access for consuming teams
• Support React frontend contributions for data discovery and operational tooling
• Collaborate on cloud architecture and platform engineering tasks in AWS
• Implement observability instrumentation across pipelines and APIs
• Work closely with contributing and consuming teams to reduce bottlenecks and improve automation
• Promote standardised data structures and evangelise correct use of the data lake across the organisation

What You'll Need

Essential:

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud engineering
• Strong Python skills for data engineering and pipeline development
• Experience with TypeScript
• Proven experience delivering ETL or ELT pipelines in a commercial environment
• Experience with API design and implementation
• React frontend development skills
• UK work authorisation

Desirable:

• Experience with Snowflake
• Familiarity with observability tools including logging, monitoring and tracing
• Experience with JavaScript

Why Apply?

• Salary of £40,000 to £45,000
• Work on a greenfield data lake platform with real engineering impact
• Collaborative, fast-moving team with a strong focus on automation and reducing technical debt
• Hybrid working within a business investing seriously in modern data infrastructure
• Varied role spanning data engineering, API development and frontend contribution

Interested?

For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, connect with Justin Donaldson on LinkedIn or submit your CV via the link below.

Skills:
Python ETL AWS Typescript API

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