Senior Cloud Engineer

Company: John Lewis Partnership
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will help shape and grow the Partnership Data Platform (PDP) on Google Cloud and Snowflake. You’ll work in a cross-functional, agile team to deliver a scalable, secure cloud platform that enables data-driven decision-making across the Partnership. You’ll influence the platform’s evolution, support new projects, and mentor colleagues, with potential to move into people management. This role offers hands-on technical impact in a proudly employee-owned business with a focus on innovation and collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

  • hybrid working
  • flexible working
  • employee-owned partnership culture
  • focus on work-life balance
  • opportunity for career progression and leadership
  • collaboration across cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the Partnership Data Platform (PDP) on GCP and Snowflake in an Agile team
  • Influence platform evolution to meet business needs and support data-driven analytics
  • Support shaping new projects and mentor less experienced developers
  • Collaborate with diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicate effectively
  • Potential to move into people management if desired

Key requirements

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform or another major cloud provider
  • Infrastructure as code with a software engineering mindset
  • Python for automation and extending platform services
  • Design for reliability and security
  • CI/CD practices and tooling
  • Agile development experience and willingness to pair program
  • Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring teams
  • Experience with generative AI tools and techniques
  • Strong communication
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other major cloud provider
  • Terraform
  • Snowflake Data Platform

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Posted: October 2nd, 2026