Lead Data Engineer

We're partnering with a high-growth, product-led digital business to hire a Lead Data Engineer to own and scale their data platform during an exciting phase of expansion.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll define technical direction, mentor engineers, and build reliable, production-grade data systems that power analytics and real-time decision-making across the company.

• Own the data engineering strategy for a rapidly scaling platform

• Lead architecture, pipelines, and engineering standards end-to-end

• Fully remote role (UK-based)

• Salary up to £120,000 plus a strong benefits package

• High-impact position with genuine influence at senior level

• Setting technical direction and best practices across the data function

• Designing and scaling modern data pipelines and platforms

• Partnering with senior stakeholders to align data initiatives to business goals

• Coaching and developing data engineers

• Embedding testing, monitoring, automation, and quality into the data stack

• Driving long-term platform evolution and architecture decisions

• Extensive experience in data engineering, including time in a lead role

• Strong Python and SQL skills

• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)

• Hands-on dbt, AWS, and modern data warehouses

• Strong data modelling and architectural capability

• Background scaling data platforms in high-growth environments

• Snowflake or Apache Iceberg

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

• Observability-driven data systems

• Salary up to £120,000

• Fully remote working

• Home-office setup

• Private healthcare and income protection

• 25 days holiday + enhanced parental leave

• Strong learning and development budget