Data Platform Engineer

London - 4 days per week onsite
£120,000 base + 30% bonus + benefits

A growing investment organisation is building a brand new Data & AI capability and is hiring a Data Platform Engineer to help lay the foundations of its modern data ecosystem. This is a true greenfield environment with no fixed tooling, offering a rare opportunity to shape architecture, standards and best practices from day one.

You will design, develop and scale the organisation's Microsoft first data platform, enabling analysts and AI teams with high quality, reliable and governed data. This is a hands on engineering position requiring autonomy, flexibility and a practical mindset.

• Build and manage the data platform using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and OneLake.
• Develop ingestion patterns, foundational datasets and platform services.
• Partner with Data Analysts to support data access and troubleshoot platform issues.
• Implement monitoring, governance and cloud cost optimisation.
• Contribute to early architectural decisions and tooling selection.
• Operate effectively in a low maturity, evolving environment.

• Deep, hands on Microsoft Fabric experience (essential)
• Strong Azure engineering background
• Broader Microsoft data stack awareness (Purview, OneLake, etc.)
• Experience in greenfield or build phase environments
• Ability to "figure things out" without heavy guidance
• Financial services exposure beneficial but not required

• £120k salary + 30% bonus
• Health insurance
• Office first hybrid: 4 days per week onsite in London
• Significant early influence on data strategy and platform build out