Data platform engineer consultant & trainer

Senior Data Platform Engineer (with Lead track)

Amsterdam | Working from home (Hybrid)

Are you passionate about building scalable cloud platforms that make real-world impact? And do you also enjoy sharing your knowledge, coaching other engineers and growing into a leadership role?

At Xccelerated, we're looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help evolve and scale a cloud data platform at a large, customer-facing energy organisation. Four days a week you'll build and run the platform. One day a week you'll invest in our community of consultants as a trainer, coach and technical assessor, with the opportunity to grow into an internal Lead role.

• Take ownership of a modern data platform that serves millions of customers

• Work on real-world use cases ranging from real-time data processing to advanced analytics and data science

• Gain hands‑on experience with AWS, Terraform, Python and event-driven architectures

• Combine deep technical work with training, coaching and mentoring

• Clear growth path towards an internal Lead role at Xccelerated

• Collaborate with experienced engineers, data scientists and platform teams

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS

• Build and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation, mainly in Python

• Keep the platform stable, observable and cost-efficient, and continuously improve it

• Enable data scientists and data engineers to bring pipelines and models into production

• Contribute to the architecture and roadmap of the data platform

At Xccelerated (1 day per week)

• Give technical training to our consultants in Data & Cloud

• Coach and guide consultants in their technical and professional development

• Support our recruitment team with technical assessments and candidate evaluation

• Share best practices and help raise the technical bar across the community

• Grow towards an internal Lead role, with more ownership over training, coaching and the technical direction

You are a hands‑on senior engineer who enjoys building scalable platforms and also likes helping others grow.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cloud, IT, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering or DevOps