Platform Engineer
Posted Today by Hamilton Barnes
£500 Per day
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Platform Engineer role involves working closely with a Senior Platform Engineer to develop and maintain the integration layer connecting BSS/OSS systems. This position is part of a transformation initiative to shift from vendor-managed integration to an in-house engineering capability. The engineer will play a crucial role in building integrations that connect various systems, including Salesforce Communications Cloud, to enhance customer connectivity across the UK. The contract is for 6 months and is fully remote, classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Senior Platform Engineer to deliver and maintain the integration layer for BSS/OSS systems.
- Build and maintain integrations connecting Salesforce Communications Cloud to various billing systems and provisioning pipelines.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 18 months of hands-on integration or API development experience.
- Solid understanding of REST API fundamentals and practical experience with APIs.
- Exposure to integration concepts and experience with data transformation.
- Working experience with at least one scripting or development language (Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.).
- Source control experience with Git.
- Awareness of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
- Exposure to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and DataWeave 2.0 is desirable.
- Salesforce connector experience or familiarity with Salesforce APIs is a plus.
Salary (Rate): £500/day
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Platform Engineer - Outside IR35 - Remote - 6 months
- You will be an integral member of Squad A, working alongside the Senior Platform Engineer to deliver and maintain the integration layer that connects BSS/OSS systems. Mid-transformation - moving from vendor-managed, outsourced integration to a fully in-house engineering capability - and your contributions will matter from day one.
- The integrations you build and maintain are what connect Salesforce Communications Cloud to billing systems, provisioning pipelines, the NetAdmin network configuration platform, and ultimately to the customers getting connected across the UK.
Must Have Skills
Experience
- Minimum 18 months of hands-on integration or API development experience in a professional delivery environment - working on real platform implementations with production consequence, not solely academic or training exercises
- Solid REST API fundamentals - HTTP methods, status codes, JSON/XML payload structures - with practical experience consuming or publishing APIs in a professional context
- Exposure to integration concepts in practice - connecting disparate systems, handling data transformation between formats, managing errors and retries in integration flows
- Working experience with at least one Scripting or development language (Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, or equivalent) used to build or support integration or automation work
- Source control experience - Git, branching, pull requests, and working within a team development workflow
- Awareness of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices - sufficient to operate within a structured DevOps delivery model
Desirable Skills
- Demonstrable exposure to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Anypoint Studio, and the standard connector catalogue (HTTP, SFTP, Database, Salesforce) - with the ability to configure and troubleshoot integration flows from a specification
- DataWeave 2.0 awareness and growing proficiency - able to write and interpret basic-to-intermediate transformation logic for JSON and XML payloads
- Salesforce connector experience or familiarity with Salesforce APIs
- Exposure to RAML or OpenAPI Specification for API contract documentation
- Telecoms, ISP, or BSS/OSS platform awareness
- MuleSoft Certified Developer (Associate or Professional level)
- Exposure to event-driven patterns - Webhooks, message queuing, async integration
- Contract Length: 6 months
- Day Rate: £500/day (Outside IR35)
- Mode: Fully Remote
- Start: ASAP