nxwave
Data Technology Engineer (UK)
Job description
Location: UK
Department: Data Technology / Platform Engineering
Role Summary We are looking for a Data Technology Engineer to design, build, and run secure, multi‑tenant data platform capabilities . This role focuses on platform services, integration, orchestration, security, and observability , enabling teams to reliably access, integrate, and operate data pipelines at scale. This is a modern cloud‑native platform role —ideal for engineers who enjoy working across Kubernetes, APIs, data orchestration, and developer experience , while partnering closely with security and risk stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Design and evolve multi‑tenant platform architecture
- Build secure access patterns for data services and APIs
- Deliver integration and API management capabilities (Kong or similar)
- Enable data virtualisation via Trino or query federation tools
- Operate Airflow as a platform service with production standards
- Implement end‑to‑end observability aligned to SLOs
- Improve CI/CD, artefact promotion, and developer experience
- Collaborate with security, risk, and engineering teams Key Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Kubernetes or cloud‑native platform engineering
- Exposure to multi‑tenant platform architectures
- API management or integration tooling (Kong, Apigee, gateways)
- Airflow in production environments
- Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, tracing)
- Data access technologies ( Trino , federation, or query engines)
- Solid engineering fundamentals: version control, CI/CD, IaC concepts Nice to Have
- Security, audit, or policy‑as‑code exposure
- Container image management (Harbor or similar)
- Data storage experience (S3, Hive, RDBMS)
- Experience building internal developer platforms


