Data Platform Engineer

Data Platform Engineer
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Data Platform Engineer to join our diverse Data Platform team. Treatwell is an organisation that is built on data, but we’re just getting started. In this role, you’ll contribute to building and maintaining scalable, secure, and innovative data solutions, ensuring stakeholders have the tools and insights needed for impactful, data-driven decisions.

The Data Platform team ensures that Treatwell's analysts, engineers, and business users have the tools and infrastructure needed to make timely, accurate data driven decisions. As a Data Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in achieving this by managing, building and leveraging a variety of data tools including processing pipelines, streaming mechanisms, observability tools, data integrity frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. You will work as part of a cross functional Agile team writing and shipping high quality code frequently.

As a data platform team, we predominantly code in Python and Terraform. In our tech stack, we prioritise making use of open source platforms when we can, such as Airbyte, Terraform, Grafana, DBT Core. We run our services on cloud technologies on Amazon AWS such as ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Redshift, S3, EMR and Secrets Manager, as well as make use of third parties that bring business value such as Fivetran, Looker, and Slack.

You will:

• Collaborate with your team members to build and maintain a scalable, robust data platform and performant data solutions to the entire organisation.
• Manage data platform infrastructure and its security
• Manage Redshift Data Warehouse, ensuring smooth running day-to-day performance.
• Own platform observability, including health checks, logging, metrics, and alerting for data pipelines and tools.
• Measure and improve platform performance by analysing system metrics and implementing feedback-driven enhancements.
• Partner with data product managers to address the organisation’s data integration needs.
• Support Analytics Engineers for any data / tooling needs this will include:
• Ensure transformation tooling (DBT Core) is stable and scalable
• Integrate data from different data sources into Data Warehouse
• Ensure data pipelines are robust and supported with CI/CD abilities
• Build and manage development and production environments
• Align infrastructure design with engineering best practices in collaboration with the Tech Platform team.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies for platform scalability and long-term growth.
• Foster a data-driven culture and approach to decision making
• Collaborate with analytics engineers / software engineers / product managers / stakeholders on cross team projects.
• Contribute towards the strategy and direction of the Data Platform.

About You

• Experience with data integration tools (Airbyte preferred), orchestration tools like Airflow, and observability frameworks for logging and alerting.
• Proficient in Python, with experience building scalable data tools and adhering to test-driven development and best practices using Docker.
• Hands-on experience on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, ideally on AWS.
• Familiarity with GitLab CI and enabling complex CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in managing data platform infrastructure, including maintaining Redshift or similar data warehouses, ensuring system reliability and performance, and implementing security best practices. 
• Familiarity with monitoring and visualisation tools like Prometheus and Grafana for platform observability.
• You prioritise creating technical documentation to enhance cross-functional alignment and knowledge sharing
• A strong team player who thrives in Agile, high-performance teams. You excel in articulating complex technical matters clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passionate about contributing to the broader data platform strategy. You align technical initiatives with business objectives and seek opportunities to drive innovation and scalability.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a focus on resolving complex technical issues.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and using Helm is a nice-to-have

About Treatwell

Hi, we’re Treatwell. Nice to meet you.

We’re a team of 700 passionate and brilliantly talented people across Europe. We’re the industry’s smartest salon management software, all connected to Europe’s leading bookings platform, working with over 50,000 salon partners across 13 countries, processing over 8 million bookings every month. And….breathe.

But we’re not done yet. We’re on an exciting journey to digitally revolutionise the hair and beauty community.

If this excites you, we might just have the role for you.

We’ll treat you with:

• 28-days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Monthly £40 Treatwell vouchers so you can treat yourself too
• Mental health support through our partnership with Plumm
• 100% remote position with flexible working
• Growth funds for you to develop and grow with your team
• All the tools / devices supplied to do the best job you can eg. laptop, monitor, keyboard etc

Equal Ops

Treatwell is an ‘Open to All’ employer and warmly welcomes everybody to the team. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process as required. Please add any adjustment requests to your application.