Senior Software Engineer II (Data & AI Platform)
StepStone Group4 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for the Data Platform.
- Drive architectural decisions across data, platform, and infrastructure domains.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and reusable technical patterns.
- Guide teams through complex technical challenges and support end-to-end delivery, planning, and risk management.
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities, and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or equivalent senior individual contributor.
- Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Expertise with technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and scalable data solutions.
- Experience with data lakes or lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, and batch and streaming processing.
- Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing, and observability tools such as Datadog.
- DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices are a plus.
Benefits
- 29 days of holiday allowance plus bank holidays.
- Private medical and dental healthcare.
- Pension contribution up to 10%.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and life assurance cover.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Hybrid working model.
- Volunteering days and the option to bring your dog to the office.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About StepStone Group
The Stepstone Group operates online job platforms and programmatic recruitment services that match employers with candidates. It sells job advertising, CV database access, and hiring solutions to businesses across a portfolio of brands including Stepstone, Totaljobs, and Appcast. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, it serves markets in 30+ countries through local sites and technology used by both enterprises and SMBs.