Aker Systems - Principal Data Platform Engineer

• Minimum 10+yrs of deep hands-on expertise in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, and modern service-oriented architecture • Strong understanding of Kafka, event-driven patterns, and asynchronous communication • Experience designing and scaling cloud-native platforms in AWS or Azure • Solid experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure automation • Knowledge of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins • Strong grasp of DDD, API design, and operational aspects like logging, monitoring, and alerting • Ability to work across the full stack and understand how systems interact in production • Demonstrated leadership in complex delivery environments, with the ability to align teams around a shared technical vision • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills—able to translate complexity into clarity • Experience with Terraform, Helm, or GitOps tooling • Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React and TypeScript • Exposure to GraphQL, observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), or large-scale data platforms • Prior work in regulated industries (BFSI, telecom, public sector) • Mindset & Leadership Style • To succeed in this role, you'll bring more than just technical knowledge. You'll demonstrate: • A builder’s mindset, passionate about developing scalable, secure, and future-proof systems • The ability to lead through complexity—guiding teams through uncertainty with structure and clarity • A collaborative, mentoring approach, focused on enabling those around you • A bias for action, balanced with a disciplined approach to testing, automation, and operational readiness • Curiosity and openness to new ideas, technologies, and better ways of working • A high level of ownership, with a calm and methodical attitude toward incident resolution, delivery pressure, and change • Aker Systems Attributes • At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion. • In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more. • Equal Opportunities • Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.