Hybrid Senior Data Engineer – Platform & Analytics

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About the role

  • Senior Data Engineer managing data platform strategy and analytics architecture at HALOS scaleup company. Owning design and implementation of analytical data platform.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve HALOS’ data platform strategy, aligned with a globally distributed, microservice-oriented architecture.
  • Evaluate, select, and implement a modern data stack.
  • Design a scalable data architecture capable of handling high-volume IoT telemetry alongside transactional business data.
  • Support the long-term evolution toward a data mesh–inspired approach.
  • Build and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines for ingesting structured and semi-structured data from multiple sources.
  • Develop and manage high-quality analytical data models (SQL / dbt) that serve as reliable, well-documented sources of truth.
  • Ensure high availability, data quality, and observability across all data workflows.
  • Partner closely with backend and platform engineering teams to advise on data modelling decisions.
  • Act as a data architecture advisor, ensuring data is designed well at source even when owned by other teams.
  • Design data pipelines and storage strategies with cost efficiency as a first-class concern.
  • Establish strong data governance standards, ensuring compliance with GDPR and internal security policies.

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ experience in data engineering or data platform roles.
  • Strong experience with AWS (e.g. S3, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, Glue).
  • Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills for data processing and integration.
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating modern data warehouses (e.g. Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
  • Proficiency with dbt (data build tool) and modern analytical modelling practices.
  • Experience supporting BI tools such as Metabase, Looker, or Tableau.
  • Highly Valued: Experience working alongside microservice-based application architectures.
  • Strong understanding of transactional vs analytical data modelling trade-offs.
  • Experience influencing schema design or event contracts in collaboration with application teams.
  • Experience optimising data platforms for cost and scale.
  • Exposure to event-driven or streaming architectures.
  • Nice to Have: Experience working with IoT or high-volume telemetry data.
  • Experience operating within an AI or ML-enabled data ecosystem.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or CloudFormation).
  • Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.

Benefits

  • Generous Annual Leave Allowance
  • Competitive salary and commission/bonus package
  • Learning and Development opportunities
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Home & Tech scheme
  • Regular company events and social initiatives

Job title

Senior Data Engineer – Platform & Analytics

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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