Bupa
Senior Data Platform Engineer
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Job Description: Senior Data Platform Engineer
Primary Location
Salford (M50 3SP) or Staines (TW18 3DZ) or London (EC2R 7HJ)
Flexible / Hybrid working options.
Job Type
Permanent
Salary
Negotiable depending on experience & location
10% Bonus + fantastic benefits
Hours
Full time 37.5 hours
Flexibility
We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.
About Us
We Make Health Happen
At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients, and residents in mind, you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.
Right from the start, you’ll become part of our digital & data strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.
Role Overview
Join our team as a Senior Platform Engineer, where you'll contribute to the design and operation of a scalable, secure enterprise data platform supporting advanced analytics and business intelligence in a healthcare and insurance setting. You'll work with high autonomy, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical excellence while ensuring compliance and performance. This is a key role in shaping a robust, automated data platform that powers better patient care and smarter insurance services.
Please note: this is a Platform Engineering role rather than a Data Engineering position. We welcome applications from data engineers who also bring strong platform engineering experience — for example, working with IaC, Terraform, or similar tooling.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and delivery of robust, automated, and scalable Azure and Snowflake data platform components.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency and reusability across environments.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to support rapid, reliable deployments.
- Implement observability practices including logging, metrics, and alerting using observability tools.
- Collaborate with the Lead Engineer and Architects to align implementation with platform standards and patterns.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in automation and monitoring.
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Key Skills / Qualifications
- Extensive experience in platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on Azure-based data solutions.
- Expert-level knowledge of Azure and/or Snowflake services, including Data Factory, Data Lake, Azure ML, and Power BI/Fabric.
- Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and building CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Strong grasp of observability practices, including logging, metrics, alerting, and performance optimization.
- Deep understanding of cloud security, with experience applying secure-by-design principles in Azure and/or Snowflake (e.g., network isolation, IAM, data protection).
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
- Collaborative mindset, with a proven track record of working effectively across engineering, data science, and business teams.
- Clear communicator, capable of documenting technical designs, contributing to platform standards, and presenting solutions to stakeholders.
- Leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing – highly desirable.
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Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
IT
Locations
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House
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