Austin Elliot Consultancy
Developer - Analytics Platform Engineer
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Where digital transformation meets compassion.
We are a leading consultancy specialising in technical delivery and organisational transformation for the public sector. With a mission to become the supplier of choice for digital change, we tailor our solutions to fit the unique needs of our clients, focusing on empowering the people behind the technology. Our vision is to help organisations optimise their technical capabilities through the talent already within their teams. If you're passionate about making meaningful change with integrity, humility, leadership, and selflessness, we’d love for you to join us on this rewarding journey.
Role Overview
We are seeking an Analytics Platform Engineer to join our team, where you will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving a robust analytics hosting platform that supports mission-critical solutions. In this role, you will develop, test, deploy, and enhance platform capabilities, resolve issues within existing analytics services, and provide hands-on engineering support to Data Scientists and MLOps teams working across a range of technologies. You will operate in a dynamic environment with varied and sometimes unfamiliar technical challenges, requiring strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and a practical engineering mindset to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions that enable data-driven outcomes for our clients.
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Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Work on high-impact projects focused on cloud migration and data management.
- Build scalable, secure systems and contribute to the full software development lifecycle.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy a new analytics hosting platform.
- Handle bug fixes and feature requests for existing mission-facing analytics.
- Provide engineering support to MLOps engineers and Data Scientists. These are unpredictable and highly variable requirements, potentially using unfamiliar technology, so a flexible style is required.
Required Skills
In this role, we are looking for a mixture of the following skills:
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD basics (Gitlab pipelines)
- Data science and MLOps knowledge (highly desirable)
- Spark (highly desirable)
- Scala (highly desirable)
- S3 (highly desirable)
- Graph databases (highly desirable)
- Elasticsearch (highly desirable)
- Vector stores (highly desirable)
- OIDC/OAuth (highly desirable)
- NodeJS (highly desirable)
- React (highly desirable)
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Benefits
- Competitive salary with personal & company bonus scheme, plus business development commission
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- 28 days holiday (plus option to buy up to 2 extra weeks)
- Generous pension contributions with access to a personal financial advisor
- Available Car scheme with Octopus Energy
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
- Beautiful central Cheltenham offices with parking, flexible workspaces, and comfy lounge areas
- Always-stocked fridge with drinks and snacks
- Fun, collaborative team culture with regular social events and parties
- Opportunities to grow with a generous annual training budget
- Amazing long-service benefits, including extra holiday, higher pension contributions, retention bonuses, and charitable contributions.
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