Data Platform Engineer

Data Platform Engineer (12?Month Day Rate Contract OUTSIDE IR35

Perthshire | Hybrid (1 or 2 days onsite per week)

Excellent opportunity for an innovative and highly capable Data Platform Engineer to support and accelerate a major transformation in the way they use and trust data.

This is a rare opportunity to build an enterprise grade data platform from the ground up, spanning Snowflake, Oracle SQL, Power BI and a mix of on prem and cloud services, while deeply embedded in the heart of a unique and multifaceted organisation.

This role blends technical engineering excellence with strategic influence. You will work across all levels of the business, building strong relationships to truly understand our operations, commercial priorities, and strategic objectives.

Your work will directly help the organisation achieve its KPIs by ensuring data is reliable, trusted, and actionable.

The role:

Building the platform and the foundations for trust

Play a lead role in architecting and building our new enterprise data platform
Build strong partnerships across the organisation to deeply understand operations, goals, and data requirements
Communicate confidently across all levels, including Executive leadership to ensure data is trusted, reliable, and aligned with business needs

Daily ownership & operational responsibilities

Conduct overnight data checks and review script/data logs
Manage incoming project requests, reports, automations, communications, and data?related queries
Publish curated, business ready datasets tailored to leadership needs, not raw or unrefined
Maintain stable, observable, and cost efficient pipelines with clear SLAs

Engineering excellence

Design and develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines in Snowflake and Oracle using SQL, Python, and modern orchestration tools
Deliver well modelled data products and certified Power BI assets
Implement strong security, privacy, access controls and GDPR?aligned governance
Manage data quality, lineage, cataloguing, validation rules, retention and archiving
Develop and maintain run?books, dashboards, alerting and CI/CD workflows

Cross?functional collaboration & supplier management

Partner with analysts, super?users and business leaders to convert data into meaningful decisions
Coach and support teams on best?practice analytics and optimisation
Manage key suppliers and vendors involved in data and technology delivery
Standardise integration patterns across systems, ensuring repeatable, reliable processes

Your experience

You will be someone who combines deep technical expertise with a solutions?focused, relationship driven mindset.

You will have:

Strong SQL (Snowflake + Oracle), Python and experience with dbt/Airflow/ADF/Matillion or similar
Power BI expertise: semantic models, DAX optimisation, workspace governance, deployment pipelines
Experience running production grade data platforms with high availability and observability
Strong understanding of RBAC, masking, encryption, auditability and GDPR evidence requirements
Familiarity with hybrid on prem cloud estates and SaaS integrations
A positive, collaborative attitude and pride in delivering exceptional work
Excellent communication skills and confidence interacting up to Ex Co level
The ability to propose and drive solutions, not just surface technical problems