# Lead Data Platform Engineer

About us We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment. Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life science companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors. We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, accelerated by data, digital and AI. We shape opinion through evidence-based thought leadership on key issues affecting health. With unmatched ability to access and use health data, our consultants are a driving force for delivering positive and meaningful change. About the role The Lead Platform Engineer is the senior technical lead for CF’s data platform, combining design authority over platform architecture, helping to mentor and direct the data engineering team and managing delivery of platform and data engineering workstreams. The role sits within CF’s unified data function (Data Innovation and Data Ops), which is led by the Director of Data, Analytics and Intelligence, as the most senior rol

- **Id**: 143187
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/consultancy-uk-lead-data-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T22:09:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:09:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 12226
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Flexible schedule, Hybrid work, Life insurance, Parental leave, Workplace nursery
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Healthcare & Life Sciences Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 4416287
- **Name**: Carnall Farrar
- **Domain**: carnallfarrar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/carnallfarrar>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 96
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.25
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 59
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 95000
- **Max usd**: 170000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_cell
- **Sample n**: 29

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: yes
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: yes
- **Dimensional Modeling** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 2
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-11T22:45:02Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-13T05:41:47Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-13T19:16:39Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-09T13:58:54Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 65
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.645
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 59
- **Reasons**: conf:4, repost:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:24:31Z

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