Senior Data Platform Engineer

Harnham is a fast-growing health-tech company building a connected data ecosystem to improve outcomes in complex care environments. The Senior Data Platform Engineer will own the data infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and cost-efficient to support various data consumers across engineering, analytics, and machine learning.

Responsibilities:

• Own, maintain, and evolve the core data platform built on modern lakehouse and cloud technologies
• Partner closely with engineering, data science, ML, and analytics teams to understand current and future data needs
• Design and implement live and streaming data ingestion layers (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis or similar)
• Define standards for storage, compute, orchestration, data management, and provenance
• Monitor infrastructure performance, reliability, and cost, forecasting future requirements
• Implement and manage role‑based access controls and data governance practices
• Build reusable tooling and frameworks for data consumers, including data quality monitoring and backfilling capabilities

Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience in data infrastructure, data platform engineering, or data engineering
• Hands‑on experience with Databricks in a production environment
• Strong knowledge of modern data warehouse and lakehouse architectures
• Proven experience building and supporting scalable ETL / data pipelines
• Experience with access control, data governance, security, and observability
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments