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Staff Engineer

London, England, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Provide technical leadership for the Data Platform team, defining direction and architecture for scalable data solutions supporting analytics, AI, and business-critical products.

Role type

Staff Engineer (Data Platform & Infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable, reliable, and well-governed data platform capabilities

Domain

Data infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, data platforms, AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue, Spark, data lakes/lakehouse, Iceberg, batch/streaming processing, data quality, governance, observability

Preferred skills

DBT, AI-assisted engineering practices

Technologies

AWS, Terraform, Kafka, MSK, Airflow, Glue, Spark, Iceberg, Datadog

Responsibilities

Define and evolve technical vision, roadmap, and architecture; Establish engineering standards and best practices; Drive engineering excellence in code quality, testing, and reliability; Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex challenges; Mentor engineers and champion AI-assisted development

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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