Head of Data Engineering (London)

I'm recruiting for a Head of Data Engineering to lead a small, talented team in a fast-growing Insurtech Unicorn. This is a hands-on role, guiding technical decisions while driving team development and engineering maturity.

Responsibilities:

- Own technical delivery and data engineering roadmap

- Lead and mentor a team of 4 mid-senior level engineers, with potential headroom to grow

- Improve CI/CD pipelines and shift from ad hoc to scalable, production-grade systems

- Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders and shape the future of the data platform

- Python | SQL | Snowflake | AWS (S3, Docker, Terraform) | Airflow | DBT | Apache Spark & Iceberg | PostgresDB

The ideal candidate:

- 5+ years as a senior/principal data engineer

- Experience leading or mentoring engineers

- Strong technical grounding

- Start-up/scale-up mindset - adaptable, proactive, delivery-focused