Data Engineer - Platform Engineering

About the opportunity

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join the Data Experience Team within the Platform Engineering Domain.

Platform Engineering's mission is to provide trusted, performant, and self-service platforms, enabling product teams to build 'the bank the world loves to use.' As part of this, this team is responsible for architecting and operating highly scalable, secure and compliant infrastructure solutions that manage our core database offering and data storage capabilities. The ideal candidate is a seasoned Data Engineer, an enthusiastic learner eager to pioneer novel platform solutions and grow with a team that values innovation and mentorship. If your expertise meets curiosity, we encourage you to apply.

In this role, you will

Develop and Implement: Build and maintain platform solutions that improve the reliability, security, and scalability of our Database Platform infrastructure.

Operational Excellence: Apply cloud infrastructure, networking, and CI/CD best practices to support our operational data storage solutions.

Collaborate: Work closely with Product & Analytics Teams to facilitate seamless orchestration, access and metadata management.

Knowledge Sharing: Participate in technical discussions and contribute to documentation, fostering a culture of transparency and continuous learning.

Execution: Contribute to the team’s roadmap by delivering high-quality code and infrastructure improvements.

Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshooting efforts to maintain a stable and predictable environment.

Observability: Maintain and enhance observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to ensure the platform meets its SLOs and availability targets.

​What you need to be successful

Background and Skills

Hands-on experience in maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, particularly in AWS.

Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)

Proficiency in infrastructure as c