Data Engineering Lead
Data Engineering Lead West London | Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite
Up to £90,000 + up to 40% bonus
We're working with a large, established organisation that is investing heavily in the modernisation of its data platform and is looking for a Data Engineering Lead to play a key role in that transformation.
This is a hands-on leadership position where you'll take ownership of the design and delivery of scalable data solutions while leading and developing a team of 4-6 Data Engineers. You'll be joining at an exciting stage as the business continues its move from legacy, on-premise infrastructure towards a modern, cloud-native data environment.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the design, development and deployment of scalable data pipelines and architectures
- Managing, mentoring and developing a team of Data Engineers
- Driving the adoption of cloud technologies and modern data engineering practices
- Building out reliable data operations and improving the performance of the wider data estate
- Working closely with Data Architects, Analytics teams and senior stakeholders
- Establishing engineering best practices across CI/CD, coding standards, documentation and version control
- Helping shape the technical direction of a major data modernisation programme
What we're looking for
You'll be an experienced Data Engineering leader who is still comfortable operating at a technical level.
Ideally, you'll bring experience across:
- AWS including S3, EC2, Lambda and Glue
- Snowflake
- Python & SQL
- Airflow or similar ETL/orchestration tooling
- Streaming technologies such as Kinesis
- Data warehousing and data modelling
- CI/CD and modern engineering practices
- Building and maintaining complex data pipelines
- Leading and developing Data Engineering teams
Package
Up to £90,000 base salary
Up to 40% bonus
West London
Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite