Data Platform Engineer (12 months)

COME AND JOIN US . . .

We are currently seeking an innovative resourceful and process-oriented Data Platform Engineer to join our IT team.

Our IT & Engineering team is at the heart of this mission: powering seamless guest services secure back-office platforms and innovative digital experiences. As we accelerate our data transformation across the Gleneagles Group and Estelle properties in England were expanding our team to include a Data Platform Engineer for 12 months to build operate and continually improve our enterprise data platform spanning Snowflake Oracle SQL and Power BI across on-prem and cloud.

This role blends hands-on engineering with platform stewardship. Youll design build and run pipelines and models; enable secure governed self-service analytics; and put in place the controls automation and run-books needed for a reliable auditable platform at scale.

This is a hybrid position with a minimum of one or two days each week spent on site at Gleneagles in Auchterarder in line with the needs of our business.

ABOUT GLENEAGLES

One of the worlds most iconic luxury hotels and sporting estates Gleneagles has been making memories for a century. Crowned Employer of the Year at the 2024 Cateys and Number One Resort in the UK & Ireland by readers of the Travel Leisure for their 2025 Worlds Best Awards everything we do is about surpassing expectations and creating unrivalled adventures for our guests.

WORKING AT GLENEAGLES

Were devoted to making our people feel as valued as our this way we strive to support the whole you not just the professional part but the personal part too. People join our team for all sorts of reasons. Some work here permanently to develop a career some work seasonally while others have a schedule to fit around their personal commitments. However long you plan to stay with us and whatever hours youd prefer to work were open to flexible working requests and offer hours shift patterns and contract types to suit everyone.

Location; Auchterarder just off the A9. Gleneagles is also within easy reach of a number of Scottish towns and cities: Edinburgh City Centre (1hr) Glasgow or Dundee (50mins) Stirling and Perth (25mins).

Heres a bit more detail on what we see you doing in this role:

• Executing a clear data roadmap youll raise engineering standards and enable our businesses to use data with confidence
• Providing hands-on technical leadership designing and developing ELT/ETL into Snowflake and Oracle using SQL/Python and modern orchestration owning performance tuning and cost optimisation
• Delivering well-modelled business-ready data products and certified Power BI assets
• Keeping pipelines stable observable and cost-controlled with clear SLAs
• Implementing robust security privacy and access controls aligned to policy and GDPR
• Standardising integration patterns to connect platforms and applications safely and repeatably
• Partnering with our business teams to turn data into decisions and measurable outcomes
• Managing data quality & governance defining and enforcing data standards validation checks SLAs lineage catalogue and lifecycle (retention/archiving)
• Responsible for platform operations & observability youll operate our databases pipelines and warehouses with dashboards alerting incident run-books and CI/CD
• Ensuring our security & privacy by design applying role-based access masking and classification; manage keys/secrets; evidence compliance and access reviews
• Enabling analytics model conformed layers publishing certified datasets and optimising DAX/SQL alongside coaching our analysts and super-users
• Establishing repeatable patterns (batch/CDC/stream where warranted) managing scheduling and dependencies and documents for reuse
• Interacting with our guests always warm professional helpful and doing everything you can to exceed their expectations; playing your part in making their stay with us luxurious in every way

The kind of person were looking for:

• You have fantastic core engineering skills in advanced SQL (Snowflake Oracle) solid Python; and hands-on experience with dbt/Airflow/ADF/Matillion (or similar) and Git-based CI/CD
• In Analytics Stack youre adept in Power BI dataset/semantic model design DAX optimisation workspace governance deployment pipelines
• You know exactly how to run production data platforms; monitoring incident/problem management performance and FinOps
• Security & Compliance; RBAC masking/encryption auditability; comfortable evidencing GDPR-aligned controls are all second nature to you
• You have estate breadth; hybrid/on-prem and cloud data services and youre familiar with SaaS integrations
• Highly motivated and possessing an immense sense of pride in your work; youre passionate about delivering the high standards for our guests in line with the Gleneagles brand
• You have a positive can do attitude to solving problems in a professional and courteous manner
• A strong team player with great communication skills and an enthusiastic approach; youre well organised and punctual
• You want to be part of a team that works hard supports each other and above all has fun along the way

Whats in it for you:

Time to let your hair down

• 30 days holiday (including bank holidays) that increases with service
• Seasonal parties and local social events
• 50% discount on Food & Beverage Country Pursuits Spa and Hair Salon (Mon-Thurs) and the Golf Driving Range
• Golf Membership (with access to all 3 championship courses) for 50.00 per annum

Treats in your pocket

• Flexi points into your Perkbox wallet to spend as you choose. The points can be spent immediately or you can save them up over a number of months for perks that cost that little bit more. All this gives you greater choice so you can pick the things that mean the most to you!
• Free pay day lunch and monthly drinks offers
• A generous refer a friend scheme

Be our guest

• Stay with us as a guest at Gleneagles or Gleneagles Townhouse for up to 2 nights per year at 95.00 per night a benefit available upon completion of 12 months service
• Friends & Family discounted rate of 225 - 275 B&B per night at Gleneagles
• Enjoy discounted rooms and restaurants rates with up to 50% off across the wider Ennismore brands and hotels located across some spectacular locations including London Paris Rome Dubai Doha Rio NY Chicago and name just a few
• Subsidised single occupancy en-suite accommodation available on our estate

Investment in your development and wellbeing

• Pension scheme
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme offering support and confidential advice for you and your family when you need it most
• Ongoing investment in your personal development with access to internal and external training qualifications and programmes
• Internal career opportunities across a wider range of specialisms and departments
• Monthly recognition programme
• Volunteering day every year with a charitable partner of your choice
• Complimentary access to our staff gym
• Gleneagles Cycle Scheme to spread the cost of the bike that you really want and reduce your carbon footprint

If you are our next Data Platform Engineer please forward your most recent CV to us today!

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