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, we’re 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. You’ll 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 world’s 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 World’s Best Awards, everything we do is about surpassing expectations and creating unrivalled adventures for our guests.
WORKING AT GLENEAGLES
We’re devoted to making our people feel as valued as our guests. In 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 you’d prefer to work, we’re 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).
Here's a bit more detail on what we see you doing in this role:
- Executing a clear data roadmap, you'll 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, you'll 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 we're 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, you're 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 you're familiar with SaaS integrations
- Highly motivated and possessing an immense sense of pride in your work; you're 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; you're 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
What’s 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 LA...to 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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