Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Treatwell's Data Platform team as a Data Platform Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining scalable, secure, and innovative data solutions. You will manage and build data tools, including processing pipelines, streaming mechanisms, and observability tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and efficient CI/CD pipelines. The role requires proficiency in Python and experience with various data tools and cloud technologies (AWS). You will play a key role in ensuring Treatwell's analysts, engineers, and business users have the tools and infrastructure needed to make timely, accurate data-driven decisions. This is a 100% remote position with flexible working hours.

Requirements

• Experience with data integration tools (Airbyte preferred), orchestration tools like Airflow, and observability frameworks for logging and alerting
• Proficient in Python, with experience building scalable data tools and adhering to test-driven development and best practices using Docker
• Hands-on experience on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, ideally on AWS
• Familiarity with GitLab CI and enabling complex CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in managing data platform infrastructure, including maintaining Redshift or similar data warehouses, ensuring system reliability and performance, and implementing security best practices
• Familiarity with monitoring and visualisation tools like Prometheus and Grafana for platform observability
• You prioritise creating technical documentation to enhance cross-functional alignment and knowledge sharing
• A strong team player who thrives in Agile, high-performance teams. You excel in articulating complex technical matters clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passionate about contributing to the broader data platform strategy. You align technical initiatives with business objectives and seek opportunities to drive innovation and scalability
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a focus on resolving complex technical issues
• You are based in any of the countries that are listed in the job description, with a valid right to work in that location
• You can communicate fluently in English

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team members to build and maintain a scalable, robust data platform and performant data solutions to the entire organisation
• Manage data platform infrastructure and its security
• Manage Redshift Data Warehouse, ensuring smooth running day-to-day performance
• Own platform observability, including health checks, logging, metrics, and alerting for data pipelines and tools
• Measure and improve platform performance by analysing system metrics and implementing feedback-driven enhancements
• Partner with data product managers to address the organisation’s data integration needs
• Support Analytics Engineers for any data / tooling needs this will include
• Ensure transformation tooling (DBT Core) is stable and scalable
• Integrate data from different data sources into Data Warehouse
• Ensure data pipelines are robust and supported with CI/CD abilities
• Build and manage development and production environments
• Align infrastructure design with engineering best practices in collaboration with the Tech Platform team
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies for platform scalability and long-term growth
• Foster a data-driven culture and approach to decision making
• Collaborate with analytics engineers / software engineers / product managers / stakeholders on cross team projects
• Contribute towards the strategy and direction of the Data Platform

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Kubernetes and using Helm is nice-to-have

Benefits

• 28-days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Monthly £40 Treatwell vouchers so you can treat yourself too
• Mental health support through our partnership with Plumm
• 100% remote position with flexible working within the locations we are listing for the role, meaning that you'll be attached to our legal entity in that country, so you must hold a permanent and valid residency permit
• Growth funds for you to develop and grow with your team
• All the tools / devices supplied to do the best job you can eg. laptop, monitor, keyboard etc