Analytics Platform Engineer (Contract or Permanent)

Our client is currently recruiting for an Analytics Platform Engineer (contract or Perm) to join a high-profile programme focused on cloud migration, analytics platforms, and data-driven solutions. This is an excellent opportunity to work on mission-critical systems, supporting Data Scientists and MLOps teams while helping to design, build and evolve a scalable analytics hosting platform.

Start Date: ASAP
Job Type: Contract or Permanent
Duration: 2 Months Initially
Pay Rate/Salary: Competitive
IR35: Inside IR35
Location: Gloucester (Hybrid)

The Role:

As an Analytics Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in the design, development, deployment, and support of modern analytics platforms and cloud-based solutions. You'll work across the full software development lifecycle, delivering platform enhancements, resolving issues within existing analytics services, and providing engineering support to Data Scientists and MLOps teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, testing and deploying a new analytics hosting platform
• Supporting cloud migration and data management initiatives
• Building scalable, secure, and resilient platform solutions
• Resolving bugs and delivering enhancements for existing analytics applications
• Providing engineering support to MLOps Engineers and Data Scientists
• Working across varied technical challenges and unfamiliar technologies where required

Technical Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Python
• Docker
• CI/CD fundamentals (GitLab Pipelines)

Highly Desirable Skills:

• Spark
• Scala
• S3 Storage
• Graph Databases
• Elasticsearch
• OIDC / OAuth
• NodeJS
• React