Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade (‘DBT’) bring an exciting opportunity for Senior Platform Engineers to work on critical platforms that support how digital services are built and operated across the organisation. You will contribute to scaling a major AWS global product platform and provide development teams with the tools they need to build, deploy and operate services effectively. £63,824 - £83,778 (dependant on location) plus 29% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from 7 UK locations.

About DBT

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Government Digital and Data (GDaD) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

Aout role

DBT have now successfully completed the migration of DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS to a new developer platform in AWS. Now, they’re entering the next phase: evolving this platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

Are you ready to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT?

We’re looking for Platform Engineers to help DBT build the most performant, secure and feature-rich hosting environment possible, one that puts developer experience front and centre. This is your chance to be part of something transformative, where your work will directly impact how digital services are built and run across government.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Platform Engineering team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually ‘meet the team’ on Tuesday 17th February at 12:30pm.

Follow application page for instructions to book your virtual seat.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You’ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.

Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response, streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery, and developing a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.

Tech stack includes:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

Essential experience

• Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud
• Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems - IaC (e.g. Terraform, AWS Copilot, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages to write clean and effective code (e.g. Python/Django/Java)
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking
• Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure and platform changes, including a drive to improve the Developer Experience at every turn
• Exposure to code testing / knowledge of TDD
• Experience working in an Agile environment and designing solutions to complex technical problems independently

Desirable experience

• Experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerisation
• Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components

Benefits

In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

• An excellent Civil Service pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contribution
• Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham & Salford including options for condensed hours. Minimum 40% office based.
• Best-in-class training and development tailored to your role with study days and certifications expensed
• Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service

Salary

Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview.

London based range: £67,575 to £83,778

National range: £63,824 to £80,158

Further information:

• Apply at your earliest convenience, no later than 12pm (noon) 23rd February.
• This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
• DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you are an experienced Platform or a DevOps Engineer with the ability to build reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems and looking to impact a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

Role: Lead Data Engineer - Azure/Databricks

Location: Sheffield

Working Model: Hybrid - 2 days per week in person

Salary: Up to £85k depending on experience

Own the data platform. Shape the future architecture.

This role is for a hands-on data engineering leader who wants to build something properly, not babysit legacy pipelines.

Youll take full ownership of the data engineering domain, leading the design and building of a modern, highly scalable data platform that handles complex, high-frequency industrial data. Youll work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and senior leadership, with the trust and mandate to make meaningful architectural decisions.

If you enjoy balancing strong engineering principles with real-world business needs, and you like mentoring others while staying deeply technical, this role is built for you.

What youll be working on

• Architecting and rebuilding the data transformation layer in Databricks
• Designing robust data flows that support both real-time operational views and deep historical analysis
• Moving pipelines from ad-hoc scripts to software-engineering standards(CI/CD, testing, modular design)
• Defining clear data models, schemas, and standards across a complex data estate
• Establishing a stable, high-performance serving layer for analytics, visualisation, and data science workloads
• Working closely with data scientists to remove bottlenecks and enable better modelling and experimentation
• Pair-programming, mentoring, and raising the engineering bar for a small, capable team

You wont just be delivering features; youll be setting direction.

The tech youll work with

• Core:Azure, Databricks, Python, SQL, dbt, MQTT
• Storage & Serving:Delta Lake, Postgres, TimescaleDB
• Modelling & ML:MLflow
• Visualisation:Grafana

What makes you a great fit

Youre someone who can zoom out to architecture and zoom in to code, comfortably.

• Proven experience building and owning data platforms on Azure
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of Databricks(lakehouse architecture, cluster management, performance and cost optimisation)
• Strong opinions on data modelling, schema design, and standardisation
• You treat data pipelines as software: version control, CI/CD, automated testing
• Comfortable challenging architectural decisions, and explaining why
• Able to translate technical trade-offs into business impact for non-technical stakeholders
• A mentor by nature: you raise the team through pairing, guidance, and example

Industry experience

• Experience with industrial, sensor-driven, or time-series data is highly desirable
• Alternatively, background in high-volume or highly variable data environments (missing data, duplicates, schema drift, spiky load) will transfer well

Why youll want this role

• Real autonomy:Youre trusted to make architectural calls, thats why youre being hired
• Visible impact:Your work directly unlocks better analytics and machine learning outcomes
• Modern problems:Youll work on advanced data patterns and architectures, not cosmetic refactors
• Still technical:This is a leadership role without stepping away from code

What youll get

• 5 weeks paid holiday plus bank holidays
• Tax-efficient stock options
• Company pension scheme
• Salary sacrifice EV scheme
• Training and professional development support
• Regular all-hands sessions with real transparency
• Hybrid working (2 days in person)
• Quarterly employee recognition awards
• Access to discounts via BrightHR

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Job Title: Lead Data Engineer
Location: Leeds, 2x per week
Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum

Why Apply?
This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Lead Data Engineer delivering scalable, high quality data solutions for a leading client in the technology sector. This position offers professional growth, challenging projects, and access to cutting edge cloud data technologies.

Lead Data Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimise robust, scalable data pipelines and architectures to support Business Intelligence and analytics initiatives.
• Manage and maintain cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) including data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse solutions.
• Transform and process structured and unstructured data using modern ETL/ELT frameworks (Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt).
• Collaborate closely with product managers, analysts, and software developers to ensure seamless integration and high-quality data availability.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reporting and analytics capabilities through tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, or QuickSight.
• Apply best practices in data governance, data quality, and performance optimisation.
• Operate in an agile environment, contributing to technical discussions and problem-solving initiatives.

Lead Data Engineer Requirements:

• Proven experience in building and managing cloud-based data platforms (AWS Redshift/Glue, Azure Data Factory/Synapse, Google BigQuery/Dataflow).
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and Java for data engineering tasks.
• Experience designing reliable, maintainable, and high-performance data pipelines and architectures.
• Broad understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
• Familiarity with Business Intelligence and data visualisation tools.
• Excellent analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and working independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Join our team here at StepStone and youll be responsible for providing technical leadership to all engineering and development areas across your domain, developing and executing an engineering strategy aligned to the portfolio and global tech strategies.

Working in the Design and Platform Performance domain, you willlead the technology side of web and mobile analytics for a platform with over 50 million visits each month, deliver the best user experiences and personalisation for talent and talent seekers. We built in-house large scale tracking platform, powered by Tealium, Kafka and Adobe Analytics, and successfully rolled it out to 10 of our brands. Along with the tracking we are owners of our AB testing tool Optimizely, our in-house Design System Genesys and Frontend Framework, which when put together powers the product development at scale using a data driven approach.

You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities:

• Managing and mentoring engineering professionals in your teams and domain, setting objectives for your teams and domain, owning the delivery of the outcomes, monitoring ongoing progress and performance within the OKR framework
• Partnering with your product manager, other engineering managers, staff engineers, architect, agile coach and engineering director to formulate a domain level technical strategy
• Building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitate communication between teams under your leadership and enabling free exchange of information within your sphere of influence, developing appropriate organisational structure together with the Engineering Director
• Resourcing of plans to support the business objectives and working with the Engineering Director on budgeting within the domain

Qualifications

• Experience of providing technical leadership to an engineering team; with excellent analytical, problem solving and influencing skills, resilient, open to change and results oriented
• Experience of coding and testing of analytics tracking code using Tealium iQ, Tealium Event Stream, and Adobe Analytics
• Experience of integrating data sources via web and hypermedia APIs
• Proficient in Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Next.js and Node.js, and in event-driven and eventual consistency systems using Kafka, .Net, Java, REST APIs, AWS, Terraform and DevOps
• Nice to have:experience in data pipping and modelling using SQL, DBT, ETL, Data Warehousing, Redshift and Python, and ecommerce and mobile applications background

Additional Information

Were a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when youre with us. Because your job shouldnt take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Private medical and dental healthcare
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Hybrid working model (3 days working fromthe office)
• Volunteering days
• and you can bring your dog to the office onMondays and Fridays!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:

• Armed Forces Covenant: SilverAward, Employer Recognition Scheme
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
• Stonewall: Gold Award
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)