Platform Engineer - Telecommunications

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity? 

Join a fast-growing fibre broadband provider committed to advancing digital equality across Britain by delivering full-fibre, gigabit-capable connectivity to over one million homes and businesses. Backed by an international investment consortium and led by an experienced team of telecommunications experts, the organisation is rapidly deploying its network across the East of England, focusing on communities underserved by larger providers. 

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today!

Responsibilities: 

• Act as a key member of Squad A, collaborating closely with the Senior Platform Engineer
• Design, build, and maintain the integration layer connecting BSS and OSS systems
• Support the transition from vendor-managed integrations to a fully in-house engineering capability
• Develop and manage integrations between Salesforce Communications Cloud and core systems, including billing, provisioning, and network platforms
• Ensure seamless data flow across systems to support customer connectivity across the UK
• Contribute to the ongoing transformation of the organisation’s integration architecture from day one

Required Skills/Qualifications: 

• 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

Work Location Model: 

• Fully Remote

Day Rate: 

• £500/day (Outside IR35)