Location
The Crown Estate, London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
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, supported by a growing digital ecosystem powered by data and cloud platforms. We’re looking for a Platform & Operational Data Engineer to help build and run the critical platforms and data pipelines that enable smarter decisions, stronger operations, and long-term value.

This unique hybrid role sits 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 to ensure high performance and reliability. Responsibilities include maintaining applications and services through patching, upgrades, and health monitoring; designing and running scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, and Azure SQL; applying strong data engineering practices such as data modelling, CDC, SCD2, and schema evolution; and building integrations using Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and APIs with event-driven architectures.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Azure DevOps, ARM, Bicep, or Terraform, embedding security, governance, and observability features like RBAC, OAuth2, encryption, monitoring, and telemetry. Leading troubleshooting, incident prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives will be key to your success in this role.

Join us to work on meaningful, large-scale platforms and data ecosystems, shape how data drives decision-making across a nationally significant organisation, and be part of a team committed to modern engineering practices, innovation, sustainability, and long-term impact.

Our Offering / Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, pension, and performance-related bonus. Benefits include flexible working, market-leading family policies, shopping discounts in the West End, private healthcare, life and critical illness cover, and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We highly value work-life balance and wellbeing, enabling you to be your best self at work.

Experience
Excellent experience across Azure cloud services, infrastructure, and data platforms. Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory, 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.

About you
You enjoy working across the stack from infrastructure to data pipelines, with a passion for building robust, secure, and scalable systems. You take a holistic approach to platform and data engineering, are a natural problem solver focused on preventing issues, communicate clearly and influence stakeholders confidently, thrive in Agile environments, and enjoy driving continuous improvement. Staying curious and keeping up with the latest cloud and data engineering trends is important to you.

Qualifications
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.