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Data Platform Engineer, Senior Associate

Additional office locations
London
Job ID
19943
Date
04-Feb-2026
Permanent - Full time, Mid-level
Job category
Technology - Engineering
Join the team building the cloud‑native platforms that power how our organisation accesses, manages and uses data. In this role, you design and evolve the strategic infrastructure behind our enterprise data ecosystem, creating tools and capabilities that make data reliable, discoverable and AI‑enabled for users across the organisation.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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As a Data Platform Engineer, you develop and maintain the core platform infrastructure that underpins tools such as Dataiku, Soda and Alation, ensuring they run securely, reliably and at scale. You design cloud‑native services and containerised workloads on Amazon EKS, optimise platform performance and resilience, and manage integrations that connect platform tools with underlying data systems. You build automation, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks to streamline deployments and maintain consistent, well‑governed environments. Working directly with data scientists, analysts and business users, you help them make effective use of the platform, offering guidance, training and documentation that support adoption and best practices. You strengthen observability, metadata and catalogue capabilities, and shape the evolution of our platform through thoughtful enhancements informed by user feedback. You also explore AI and agentic capabilities that can improve user productivity and platform intelligence. 

What you offer

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  • Strong Python programming ability, with experience developing automation, platform utilities or integrations
  • Hands‑on experience running containerised services on Amazon EKS or similar Kubernetes platforms
  • Proficiency with AWS services, cloud CI/CD tooling and infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Experience working with enterprise data platforms such as Dataiku, Soda or Alation
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to support non‑technical users and contribute to a positive platform experience
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:

  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
  • 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers
  • Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
  • Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options
  • Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
  • Access to company funded emergency and backup dependent care services
  • Recognition and service awards
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
  • Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of their identity, including age, disability, neurodiversity, gender (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, parental status, race (including ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals as required during the recruitment process and in the course of employment. If you require additional assistance, please let us know during the application process.

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