Full job descriptionJob DescriptionWe are seeking a Contract Data Platform Engineer to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will play a key role in delivering a critical transformation project via the Connells Group Data Platform, including design, capacity, management and configuration management responsibilities. As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be working in a team of technical specialists on a day-to-day basis, delivering a critical project and maturing the overall processes and procedures in relation to the service. The role also supports the business objectives and strategy through the delivery of secure, supportable and scalable cloud data platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
*Develop and operate Cloud Data Platform capability
*Maintain the Data Platform for project fulfilment, managing critical downtime and risk of disruption.
*To undertake root cause analysis and resolution of incidents.
*To liaise with Data Architects and Data Engineers to establish scalable and interoperable data capabilities for analytical and operational data (MS Azure, Fabric).
Team Roles and Responsibilities
*Use of Agile methodologies for platform development
*Deliver Platform as Code and support scalable data ops
*Work within the Cloud Platform design pattern to implement technical and financial observability
*Undertake platform capacity management
*Support project outcomes for target solution architecture and data models
*Manage and support analytical platform use (Power BI) to enable business adoption
*Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations from other IT teams
*Collaborating with other members of the data, engineering, and platform teams.
Experience and Skills Required:
Essential:
*Demonstrable experience in similar relevant technical roles
*Experience of incident resolution, requests, changes and problem-solving activities delivered to agreed SLAs
*Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies
*Experience of Microsoft Fabric or other Microsoft Cloud data ops components
*Experience of managing SQL Server
*Good team communication, with experiences in sharing and presenting new ideas and approaches with the team
*Willingness to learn, adopt and advance best-practices, procedures and qualitative standards
*Can operate in a complex environment under pressure
*Able to operate both with legacy and current technology
*Analytically minded and a strong attention to detail
Desirable:
*Experience of GitHub, Git Actions, Terraform, Platform as Code and Zero Trust architectures
*Experience of advanced tools for operational monitoring
*Ability to operate and influence at all levels within the organisation
*Experience of tools for Alerting and Monitoring
*Cloud Cost Monitoring and reporting
*STEM degree/ postgraduate qualification
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