Platform & Operational Data Engineer

Advert Closes: Wednesday 15th July

Are you a Platform & Data Engineer who thrives on building the heartbeat of modern digital operations?

At The Crown Estate, we manage a diverse portfolio that spans iconic London destinations, regional assets, and the UK’s seabed, but behind it all is a growing digital ecosystem powered by data and cloud platforms.

We’re looking for a Platform & Operational Data Engineer to help us build and run the critical platforms and data pipelines that enable smarter decisions, stronger operations, and long-term value.

What you’ll be doing

This is a unique hybrid role at the intersection of platform engineering and data engineering, giving you real ownership across infrastructure, integrations, and data flows.

You’ll:

• Deploy, manage, and optimise Azure and on-prem platforms, ensuring high performance and reliability

• Maintain applications and services, including patching, upgrades, and health monitoring

• Design and run scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, and Azure SQL

• Apply strong data engineering practices including data modelling, CDC, SCD2, and schema evolution

• Build integrations using Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and APIs, leveraging event-driven architectures

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Azure DevOps, ARM, Bicep, or Terraform

• Embed security, governance, and observability (RBAC, OAuth2, encryption, monitoring, telemetry)

• Lead troubleshooting, incident prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives

What you’ll bring

You’re someone who enjoys working across the stack from infrastructure to data pipelines, with a passion for building robust, secure, and scalable systems.

You’ll have:

• Excellent experience across Azure cloud services, infrastructure, and data platforms

• Hands-on expertise with ADF, Databricks (PySpark), Synapse, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB

• Experience designing integrations and event-driven architectures

• Proven DevOps experience with Azure DevOps, Git, and Infrastructure as Code

• Knowledge of security, governance, and data management principles, including Microsoft Purview

• Development skills in Python and/or C#, with a focus on clean, maintainable code

How you’ll succeed

You’ll stand out if you:

• Take a holistic approach to platform and data engineering

• Are a natural problem solver, focused on preventing issues, not just fixing them

• Communicate clearly and influence stakeholders confidently

• Thrive in Agile environments and enjoy driving continuous improvement

• Stay curious and keep up with the latest cloud and data engineering trends

Why The Crown Estate?

This is your chance to:

• Work on meaningful, large-scale platforms and data ecosystems

• Shape how data drives decision-making across a nationally significant organisation

• Join a team committed to modern engineering practices and innovation

• Be part of a purpose-driven organisation with a focus on sustainability and long-term impact

Build the platforms. Power the data. Enable the future.

If you’re excited by the idea of owning both platform reliability and data engineering excellence, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at [email protected]

Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.