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Data Platform Lead

Galaxi Consulting Group — United Kingdom · Posted ~3 hours ago

Lead Contract Hybrid £75K-£80K per year

Skills

AWS Apache Kafka Amazon MSK Amazon Kinesis Amazon EKS Kubernetes Terraform Infrastructure as Code AWS networking CI/CD GitHub Actions IAM Kafka MSK Kinesis EKS

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A senior engineering leadership opportunity to design and operate large-scale cloud data platforms. The role involves streaming architectures, container platforms, infrastructure automation, security practices, and guiding a technical team in a regulated environment.

Highlights

Leadership role focused on building scalable cloud data platforms, streaming technologies, infrastructure automation, and mentoring engineering teams.

Description

Data Platform Lead – Streaming | AWS | Kafka | EKS 📍 Milton Keynes, UK | 🏢 Hybrid – 3 Days Office/Week 💼 1-Year Fixed Term | 💷 £75K–£80K PA (may go slightly higher) 🚀 Start: ASAP 🏦 Banking Domain We are hiring a Data Platform Lead with strong Streaming experience to lead and manage a Data Streaming Engineering team for a banking client. 🔑 Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor a Data Streaming Engineering teamDesign, deploy and support scalable AWS data platformsManage streaming solutions using Kafka, Amazon MSK, KinesisAdminister and troubleshoot Amazon EKS/Kubernetes in productionDevelop Terraform modules and drive Infrastructure as CodeManage AWS networking: VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers & IAMManage EC2-based infrastructureBuild CI/CD pipelines using GitHub ActionsImplement monitoring, logging, security and operational best practicesCollaborate with architects, developers and business stakeholders🛠️ Mandatory Skills ✅ 12–15+ years of IT experience ✅ Strong AWS – EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch ✅ Hands-on Kafka / Amazon MSK / Kinesis – Mandatory ✅ Kubernetes administration & troubleshooting on EKS ✅ Terraform module development & automation ✅ AWS Networking & Security ✅ GitHub Actions / CI/CD ✅ Linux administration & Bash/Python scripting ✅ CloudWatch / Dynatrace ✅ Engineering team leadership & mentoring 🎯 Ideal candidates: Hands-on Data Platform / Streaming Engineering Leads with strong AWS and production Kubernetes experience. Banking/financial-services experience is an advantage. 📩 Interested candidates can share their CV along with current location, notice period, salary expectation and UK work eligibility.