Principal DevOps Engineer

Aker Systems

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations.  We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations. In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track.  The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.  We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.  We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work. PRINCIPAL ENGINEER – DATA PLATFORM Location: Remote (UK-based; Security Clearance Required) A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t currently hold SC clearance, we can support you in applying, provided you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. As a Principal Data Platform Engineer, you will define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of data platforms for a government client. You will operate at a systems and organisational level, shaping how data is ingested, processed, governed, and consumed across multiple teams and services. This role goes beyond hands-on engineering — it requires deep technical authority, cross-team influence, and strategic decision-making to ensure platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to long-term business outcomes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Define and own the technical strategy for data platform architecture, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability and maintainability. * Lead the design of complex, distributed data systems, including batch and real-time processing at scale. * Establish platform-wide standards, patterns, and best practices for data engineering, reliability, and security. * Act as a technical authority and mentor, guiding senior and lead engineers across teams. * Drive architecture decisions across multiple squads, ensuring alignment with enterprise and government standards. * Partner with architects, product leaders, and stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions. * Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency performance across critical data services. * Champion engineering excellence, including TDD, BDD, observability, and continuous delivery practices. * Oversee data modelling standards and governance, ensuring consistency, lineage, and integrity across systems. * Lead cross-team incident analysis and root cause resolution, driving systemic improvements. * Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tools, and frameworks to evolve platform capabilities. * Provide technical leadership in client engagements, influencing decisions and managing senior stakeholder expectations. * Ensure operational excellence, including resilience planning, cost optimisation, and platform sustainability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES * Operating effectively in high ambiguity and incomplete problem spaces * Influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams * Navigating complex client environments and competing priorities * Leading through technical authority rather than hierarchy * Driving alignment across multiple teams and domains * Continuously evaluating and adopting emerging technologies strategically ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES * Extensive experience designing and building large-scale, distributed data platforms * Deep expertise in Java-based systems and modern backend architectures * Strong experience with streaming and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) * Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams) * Expertise in cloud-native architectures, ideally on AWS (including Lambda, S3, managed services) * Strong understanding of data pipeline design, orchestration, and optimisation * Experience with data modelling at scale, including schema design and evolution * Expertise in relational and NoSQL database design and performance tuning * Proven track record of implementing CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability practices * Strong experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Ability to define and enforce engineering standards across teams ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESIRABLE SKILLS * Advanced expertise in data modelling strategies and trade-offs across systems * Experience with search and indexing platforms (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr) * Strong knowledge of CI/CD ecosystems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Drone) * Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Packer) * Exposure to data governance, security, and compliance frameworks in regulated environments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUALIFICATIONS * Degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience) * Typically 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering, with significant time spent in architecture or principal-level roles Aker Systems Attributes At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion. In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more. Equal Opportunities Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.

Valiantys

Über Valiantys    Schließe dich Valiantys an und werde Teil von etwas Außergewöhnlichem! Bei Valiantys sind wir kein typischer Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner – wir sind die treibende Kraft hinter beeindruckenden, bahnbrechenden Lösungen, die mit größter Sorgfalt für die Atlassian-Produktpalette entwickelt werden. Wir sind Pioniere in der Bereitstellung modernster Tools für Teamzusammenarbeit und Produktivität. Denk an uns als das Raketentreibmittel, das Unternehmen antreibt und sie zu unvergleichlichem Erfolg und höchster Effizienz führt! Stell dir nun vor, du begibst dich auf eine spannende Reise mit Valiantys und Atlassian – eine Reise, auf der Innovation keine Grenzen kennt und dein Beitrag im Mittelpunkt steht.   Als Principal Transformation Consultant übernimmst du eine strategische Rolle beim Aufbau wichtiger Kundenbeziehungen, bei der Umsetzung komplexer Transformationsprogramme und beim Ausbau unseres Geschäfts. Du arbeitest eng mit Senior Executives zusammen, um Transformationsstrategien zu definieren und umzusetzen. Dazu gehören Cloud-Migrationen, technologische Modernisierung und unternehmensweite digitale Initiativen. Diese Rolle verbindet strategisches Consulting, Business Development und technologische Führung. Ein wesentlicher Teil deiner Aufgabe ist consultative selling. Du identifizierst geschäftliche Herausforderungen, entwickelst überzeugende Value Propositions und wandelst Opportunities in erfolgreiche Kundenprojekte um. Mit deinem Verständnis für Enterprise Software Delivery, den Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) und moderne Engineering Practices hilfst du unseren Kunden, ihre Transformation zu beschleunigen und gleichzeitig die Präsenz von Valiantys in strategischen Accounts auszubauen. Du berichtest an den Transformation Consulting Director. Woran du arbeiten wirst Kundenpartnerschaft & Projektdelivery Du baust vertrauensvolle Beziehungen zu Executive Stakeholdern auf, darunter Director, VP und C-Level. Du verstehst die Geschäftsziele, Technologielandschaft und Transformationsprioritäten unserer Kunden. Du führst und unterstützt Consulting-Teams bei der erfolgreichen Umsetzung komplexer, mehrstufiger Transformationsprogramme. Du erzielst messbare Geschäftsergebnisse in Bereichen wie Cloud-Migration, Plattformmodernisierung und Enterprise Toolchain Transformation. Du sorgst für eine hohe Kundenzufriedenheit und identifizierst gleichzeitig Möglichkeiten, langfristige Partnerschaften weiter auszubauen. Technologie & Transformation Du berätst Kunden dabei, ihre Software Delivery zu verbessern. Dabei nutzt du dein starkes Verständnis des Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Developer Experience (DevEx), agiler Delivery, DevOps und moderner Engineering Practices. Du begleitest Kunden bei Migration Readiness Assessments, Architekturentscheidungen und der Planung von Cloud-Transitionen. Du bleibst auf dem neuesten Stand zu Atlassian-Innovationen, cloud-nativen Technologien, AI-Trends und neuen Software Engineering Practices. Du übersetzt komplexe technische Themen in klare Business-Empfehlungen für Executive Audiences. Du förderst die praktische Einführung von AI, indem du neue AI-Fähigkeiten, Enterprise Use Cases und deren Auswirkungen auf Software Delivery und Business Transformation verstehst. Consultative-Led Selling & Business Development Du arbeitest während des gesamten Sales Lifecycles eng mit den Sales-Teams zusammen, von der Qualifizierung und Executive Discovery bis hin zu Proposal, Verhandlung und Deal Closure. Du leitest consultative Discovery Sessions, um geschäftliche Herausforderungen aufzudecken und Transformationsmöglichkeiten zu identifizieren. Du entwickelst überzeugende Statements of Work, Business Cases und Executive Proposals mit Fokus auf messbare Geschäftsergebnisse. Du definierst und setzt Account Growth Strategies um, durch Upselling, Cross-Selling und strategische Account-Entwicklung. Du wendest strukturierte Qualifizierungsmethoden wie MEDDPICC an, um Win Rates zu maximieren. Du bringst kommerzielle und technische Expertise in Solution Scoping, Pricing und Risk Management ein. Solution Design & Value Creation Du entwickelst Transformations-Roadmaps, die auf die Geschäftsziele der Kunden abgestimmt sind. Du arbeitest mit internen Practices zusammen, darunter AI, Cloud, ITSM, Agile at Scale und Developer Experience. Du übersetzt geschäftliche und technische Anforderungen in überzeugende Value Propositions. Du entwickelst wiederverwendbare Frameworks, Methoden und Accelerators, die das Consulting-Angebot von Valiantys stärken. Team Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing Du agierst als Mentor und Sparringspartner für Consultants auf allen Ebenen und trägst zu Wissensaufbau, Kompetenzentwicklung und Team Performance bei. Du teilst Marktinformationen, Kunden-Insights und Delivery Learnings intern, um Offering Development und Delivery Practices weiterzuentwickeln. Du förderst eine Kultur der kontinuierlichen Verbesserung, Professionalität und Kundenorientierung im UKI Consulting-Team. Essential Experience & Skills 10+ Jahre Erfahrung im Consulting, in Professional Services oder in Enterprise Transformation. Nachweisbare Erfahrung in der Leitung von Enterprise Cloud Migration oder Technology Modernisation Programmes. Nachweisbare Erfahrung in Enterprise Sales, consultative selling und Business Development, mit der Fähigkeit, Opportunities zu identifizieren, Business Cases zu erstellen und Advisory Engagements in Umsatz umzuwandeln. Starkes Verständnis von Enterprise Technology Environments, einschließlich Cloud-Plattformen wie Atlassian Cloud und AWS, DevOps Toolchains sowie ITSM- und PPPM-Disziplinen. Starke Kenntnisse des Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agiler Methoden, CI/CD, Developer Experience und moderner Software Engineering Practices. Verständnis für Artificial Intelligence (AI),Generative AI und AI-assisted Software Development, sowie die Fähigkeit, deren Business Value und praktische Enterprise-Anwendungen zu erklären. Ausgezeichnete Fähigkeiten im Executive Stakeholder Management und in der Einflussnahme auf Senior Stakeholder. Nachweisbare Erfolge im Management und Ausbau strategischer Kundenaccounts. Hervorragende Kommunikations-, Moderations-, Präsentations- und Workshop-Fähigkeiten. Eine proaktive und anpassungsfähige Denkweise, mit der Fähigkeit, strategisches Denken und hands-on Execution zu verbinden. Du sprichst fließend Deutsch und Englisch. Nice to Have Erfahrung im Atlassian-Ökosystem, zum Beispiel Jira, Confluence oder Jira Service Management. MEDDPICC oder eine vergleichbare Sales Qualification Methodology. Erfahrung mit Agile at Scale, zum Beispiel SAFe, LeSS oder vergleichbare Frameworks. Erfahrung mit Managed Services oder langfristigen Customer Success Engagements. Relevante Zertifizierungen, zum Beispiel Atlassian, AWS, ITIL, SAFe, PMP oder Cloud. Erfahrung darin, Organisationen bei der Definition oder Einführung von AI-Strategien zu unterstützen, basierend auf messbaren Kundenergebnissen und Business Use Cases. Standort & Arbeitsmodell Diese Position ist in Deutschland angesiedelt. Wir sind offen für Remote Work innerhalb Deutschlands, mit regelmäßigen Reisen zu Kundenstandorten. Gelegentliche Reisen innerhalb der EMEA-Region können ebenfalls erforderlich sein. Werde Teil eines schnell wachsenden, innovationsgetriebenen Unternehmens, in dem Transformation im Mittelpunkt unseres Handelns steht. Du hilfst einigen der weltweit führenden Organisationen dabei, die Art und Weise zu verbessern, wie sie Software entwickeln, bereitstellen und betreiben. Dabei kombinierst du Expertise in Developer Experience, Cloud, AI, ITSM und agiler Transformation. Gemeinsam mit Branchenexpertinnen und Branchenexperten arbeitest du in einem kollaborativen und unternehmerischen Umfeld. Du hast die Möglichkeit, echten Einfluss zu nehmen und gleichzeitig deine eigene Expertise kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln. Warum Valiantys?   Unsere Teammitglieder sind unser größtes Kapital, und wir setzen alles daran, dass Valiantys nicht nur ein großartiger Arbeitsplatz ist, sondern auch eine Plattform für persönliches Wachstum. Ownership. Du hast maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Strategie und übernimmst Verantwortung für deinen Aufgabenbereich. Training. Wir stellen Zeit und Budget zur Verfügung, damit du dich fachlich und persönlich weiterentwickeln kannst. Flexibilität. Wir wissen, dass das Leben aus mehr besteht als Arbeit. Deshalb bieten wir Flexibilität und Unterstützung, um dir zu helfen, deine Lebensziele zu erreichen. Gehalt & Benefits. Wir honorieren Engagement und Leistung mit einer attraktiven Vergütung sowie einem ausgezeichneten Leistungspaket. eGym Wellpass. Mit einer eGym Wellpass-Mitgliedschaft erhältst du Zugang zu zahlreichen Fitnessstudios in ganz Deutschland.   Wenn du bereit bist, das Ruder zu übernehmen und die digitale Innovation gemeinsam mit Valiantys voranzutreiben, dann bewirb dich jetzt und werde Teil unseres dynamischen Teams!     Valiantys ist ein Arbeitgeber, der Chancengleichheit fördert. Alle qualifizierten Bewerber:innen werden unabhängig von ihrem persönlichen Hintergrund, ihrer Identität oder ihren Überzeugungen berücksichtigt.   Wir können im Rahmen des Bewerbungsprozesses teilweise künstliche Intelligenz (KI) einsetzen, zum Beispiel zur Prüfung von Bewerbungen, zur Analyse von Lebensläufen oder zur Auswertung von Antworten. Diese Tools unterstützen unser Recruiting-Team, ersetzen jedoch nicht die menschliche Beurteilung. Die endgültigen Einstellungsentscheidungen werden stets von Menschen getroffen. Wenn Sie weitere Informationen darüber wünschen, wie Ihre Daten verarbeitet werden, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte.

CreateFuture

Who we are CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country.    We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few.   Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work. Don’t just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low.  Join us on our journey… Let’s create something awesome, together, today. About the role and team: ABOUT THE ROLE AND TEAM We're looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join our Data Practice and own the technical direction of our iGaming data engineering capability. You'll work with some of the world's largest betting and gaming operators — organisations processing hundreds of millions of events per day across sportsbook, casino, exchange, and lottery platforms. A Principal at Create Future operates above the delivery line as well as within it. You'll define how we solve the hardest data engineering problems in iGaming: petabyte-scale migrations from legacy on-premises estates, sub-millisecond event pipelines, settlement reconciliation at bookmaker scale, and the data foundations that keep operators compliant with gambling regulators globally. You'll influence the shape of engagements from pre-sales through to delivery, grow the engineering talent around you, and be a recognisable voice for Create Future in the iGaming market.   WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP * Defining and owning the data engineering architecture patterns Create Future uses across iGaming engagements — migration frameworks, streaming architectures, data integrity standards, and Lakehouse design * Acting as the most senior technical authority on client engagements — making critical architecture decisions, resolving design disputes, and setting the bar for quality * Reviewing and signing off technical designs produced by Lead and Senior engineers across active engagements * Identifying and driving the adoption of new tooling, patterns, and AWS services that improve delivery outcomes across the iGaming practice   DELIVERY * Leading the technical design and execution of large-scale data migrations — moving high-volume transactional and event data from on-premises or legacy cloud estates to AWS, without loss of fidelity or operational continuity * Architecting real-time and near-real-time data pipelines for sportsbook and in-play use cases — odds feeds, market events, bet placement streams, and settlement pipelines — where latency and correctness are non-negotiable * Designing and enforcing data integrity frameworks across betting, trading, and customer data domains — including reconciliation between source and target systems, anomaly detection, and audit trail requirements * Overseeing the implementation of regulatory and compliance reporting pipelines that meet the requirements of the UK Gambling Commission and international licensing bodies * Working with AWS services including S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, Redshift, RDS, Kinesis, MSK, Lake Formation, Step Functions, and MWAA — selecting the right tool for each problem rather than defaulting to a stack   PRACTICE AND PEOPLE * Mentoring and growing Lead and Senior Data Engineers — through code review, pairing, architecture sessions, and career conversations * Building the iGaming data engineering playbook: reusable patterns, accelerators, and reference architectures that reduce time-to-value on new engagements * Contributing to hiring — defining what great looks like for data engineering roles and playing an active part in assessment * Representing Create Future externally — at industry events, in technical blog posts, and in client-facing settings — as a credible voice on iGaming data engineering   COMMERCIAL * Shaping and leading technical responses to iGaming opportunities — scoping complex engagements, writing architecture proposals, and presenting to senior client stakeholders * Identifying expansion opportunities within existing client relationships — spotting data engineering problems we can help solve and framing them as propositions * Partnering with AWS on joint go-to-market activity where relevant, leveraging Create Future's Advanced Partner status   WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR DEEP IGAMING DOMAIN EXPERTISE * Extensive experience working in or closely with sportsbook, exchange, or casino platforms — you understand the data models, operational pressures, and regulatory constraints from the inside * You've led or made decisive contributions to large-scale data migrations in iGaming — moving live betting, customer, or trading data at scale while maintaining integrity and uptime * You've designed or owned low-latency data pipelines where correctness and throughput are both critical — odds ingestion, in-play event streams, bet settlement, or equivalent * You understand what data integrity means in a regulated gambling context: reconciliation, audit trails, lineage, and the consequences of getting it wrong   AWS DATA ENGINEERING MASTERY * AWS is your primary cloud and you can design across the full data engineering stack — from ingestion and streaming through to warehousing, serving, and cost optimisation * You have deep experience with streaming architectures — Kinesis, Kafka/MSK, Flink, or Spark Streaming — and know when each is the right choice * You can model the cost implications of architecture decisions and advise clients on trade-offs between throughput, latency, durability, and spend * AWS certification at professional or specialty level is strongly preferred   ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE * Mastery of Python, SQL, and Spark — and strong opinions on how they should be used in production data pipelines * Deep experience with dbt, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration — including how to build pipelines that are testable, observable, and operationally sound * Strong understanding of data quality engineering — not just validation rules, but how to build systems that detect and surface integrity issues before they reach consumers * Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK) and treating data platform infrastructure as a first-class engineering concern   CONSULTANCY AND LEADERSHIP * You've operated at Principal or equivalent level — making architectural decisions that affect multiple teams, and being accountable for their outcomes * You're comfortable in C-suite and VP-level client conversations, translating technical complexity into business risk and opportunity * You can hold a room on a difficult technical topic and reach a decision — not just present options * You've grown engineering talent around you and take it seriously as a leadership responsibility   TECH SNAPSHOT Primary cloud AWS — Glue, Lambda, Athena, S3, Redshift, RDS, Kinesis, MSK, Lake Formation, Step Functions, MWAA Streaming AWS Kinesis, Apache Kafka / MSK, Apache Flink, Spark Streaming Languages Python, SQL, Spark Pipeline tools dbt, Airflow / AWS MWAA, AWS Glue Platforms Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift Data quality Great Expectations, dbt tests, reconciliation frameworks, data observability tooling IaC / DevOps Terraform, AWS CDK Certification AWS Professional or Specialty level strongly preferred WHAT WE’LL OFFER YOU: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look. OUR HIRING PROCESS We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process. It usually looks like this: * Call with our Talent Acquisition Team  * Role specific capability interview  Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens. INCLUSION AT CREATEFUTURE  We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work. If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help. We look forward to your application!