# Senior Data Platform Engineer

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Staines
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Negotiable depending on experience & location
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our team as a Senior Platform Engineer, where you'll contribute to the design and operation of a scalable, secure enterprise data platform supporting advanced analytics and business intelligence in a healthcare and insurance setting.

You'll work with high autonomy, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical excellence while ensuring compliance and performance. This is a key role in shaping a robust, automated data platform that powers better patient care and smarter insurance services.

**How you’ll help us make health happen:**

- Contribute to the design and delivery of robust, automated, and scalable Azure and Snowflake data platform components.

- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency and reusability across environments.

- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to support rapid, reliable deployments.

- Implement observability practices including logging, metrics, and alerting using observability tools.

- Collaborate with the Lead Engineer and Architects to align implementation with platform standards and patterns.

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in automation and monitoring.

**Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:**

- Extensive experience in platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on Azure-based data solutions.

- Expert-level knowledge of Azure and/or Snowflake services, including Data Factory, Data Lake, Azure ML, and Power BI/Fabric.

- Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and building CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

- Strong grasp of observability practices, including logging, metrics, alerting, and performance optimization.

- Deep understanding of cloud security, with experience applying secure-by-design principles in Azure and/or Snowflake.

- Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.

- Collaborative mindset, with a proven track record of working effectively across engineering, data science, and business teams.

- Clear communicator, capable of documenting technical designs, contributing to platform standards, and presenting solutions to stakeholders.

- Leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

**Benefits**

- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

- Annual performance-based bonus

- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

- Various other benefits and online discounts

## Skills

### Required
- Azure
- Snowflake
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Python

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