Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Posted Today by Jobserve

£500 Per day
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom

Summary: The Senior Platform Engineer will serve as the technical authority for API and integration work within the BSS/OSS ecosystem, focusing on building and maintaining integration flows across various platforms. This role emphasizes senior contributions to the CI/CD pipeline and collaboration with key stakeholders to enhance internal integration capabilities. The position is fully remote and classified as outside IR35, with a contract length of six months. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in API and integration development, particularly in a production environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as the in-house technical authority for API and integration work across the BSS/OSS ecosystem.
  • Own the build, maintenance, and evolution of integration flows connecting various platforms.
  • Contribute to the CI/CD pipeline and ensure integration quality across squad boundaries.
  • Collaborate with the Head of OSS/BSS, Software Solutions Architect, and cross-squad peers to establish internal integration capabilities.

Key Skills:

  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on API and integration development experience.
  • Strong REST API fundamentals and practical experience with API consumption and publishing.
  • Experience with integration platforms and Middleware.
  • Data transformation capability across various data formats.
  • Source control discipline using Git.
  • Participation in CI/CD pipeline processes.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Desirable: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform experience, DataWeave 2.0 proficiency, API life cycle management, Salesforce connector experience, telecoms or ISP platform exposure, MuleSoft certification, and experience with event-driven integration patterns.

Salary (Rate): £500/day

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Senior Platform Engineer - Remote - Outside IR35 - 6 months

  • As Senior Platform Engineer (Integration) in Squad A, you will be the in-house technical authority for all API and integration work across critical BSS/OSS ecosystem. You will own the build, maintenance, and evolution of integration flows connecting Salesforce Communications Cloud, NetAdmin, Nokia/Adtran, billing systems, and new services provisioning pipelines - bringing rigour, repeatability, and platform ownership to an environment that has historically relied on external managed services.
  • This is not a Back Office development role. You will be a senior contributor to the CI/CD pipeline, a guardian of integration quality across squad boundaries, working closely with the Head of OSS/BSS, the Software Solutions Architect, and cross-squad peers to establish the internal integration capability

Experience

Must Have Skills

  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on API and integration development experience in a professional delivery environment - designing, building, deploying, and managing integration flows at production scale
  • Strong REST API fundamentals - HTTP methods, status codes, JSON/XML payload structures, API design principles, and practical experience consuming and publishing APIs at production scale
  • Hands-on experience with integration platforms and Middleware - connecting disparate enterprise systems, managing data flows, and maintaining integration reliability in a live environment (experience on any major integration platform considered - MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, AWS EventBridge, or equivalent)
  • Data transformation capability - authoring and maintaining transformation logic across heterogeneous data formats (JSON, XML, CSV) in a production context
  • Source control discipline - Git-based development, branching strategy, pull requests, and code review as standard practice
  • CI/CD pipeline participation - automated build, test, and deployment workflows; environment promotion; pipeline troubleshooting
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills - able to translate technical integration complexity into clear language for non-technical audiences

Desirable Skills

  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform experience - Anypoint Studio, Runtime Manager, API Manager, and the standard connector catalogue (HTTP, SFTP, Database, Salesforce)
  • DataWeave 2.0 proficiency - complex, multi-step transformation patterns across heterogeneous formats without reference to templates
  • API life cycle management - RAML/OpenAPI Specification authoring, versioning, and governance
  • Salesforce connector experience - consuming Salesforce APIs or managing Salesforce-connected integration flows
  • Telecoms, ISP, or altnet BSS/OSS platform exposure
  • MuleSoft Certified Developer or Integration Architect certification
  • Experience with event-driven integration patterns - Webhooks, message queuing, async processing

Contract Length: 6 months

Day Rate: £500/day (Outside IR35)

Mode: Fully Remote

Start: ASAP