Lead Data Platform Engineer -12 Month Secondment

Experian Credit Services & Verifications are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team for a 12 month fixed-term contract. Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes. This is a Hybrid, Nottingham based role (40% in the office). Main responsibilities: - Lead an outstanding Agile technical team - Build data pipelines and data lake - Deliver quality software - Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security - Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps - Codebase ownership - Technical Application ownership - Strong experience with DevOps & IaC tooling - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins , Harness - Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop - Strong experience with AWS cloud services including AWS Glue, S3, Step - Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake - Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools - BitBucket & Jira - Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration - Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards - Experience analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required - Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge, SQS and Lake formation - Experience with automated testing methodologies