Data Team Lead

Data Team Lead

£75,000 - £85,000 + Benefits

2 x week in Manchester

The Business

Join a global, privately owned and operated organisation working on some of the most sophisticated tech stacks in industry, spanning software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, AI, and data science...they have many growing teams and global reach and continue to set new standards across technology.

The Role

The Data Team Lead will be the technical leader within a growing data engineering team.

You’ll help shape and modernise their data platform throughout the shift from SQL Server to GCP. and support engineering strategy, architecture, and best practice.

This is a hands-on role that blends technical expertise with mentoring, guidance, and collaboration across teams.

Core technologies include:

Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Data Fusion, Data Streams, Cloud Functions, Airflow/Composer), SQL, Python, CI/CD tooling

About you

You'll have

• Significant experience in Data Engineering
• Experience to cloud platforms (specifically GCP)
• Strong understanding of Data Governance principles.
• DBT / Data Mesh / Modelling Experience
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
• Strong track record of mentoring and technical leadership
• Background working in Agile / Scrum / SDLC environments

If big systems, fast-moving challenges and modern tech get you fired up, this could be your next move.

Requirements added by the job poster

No need for visa sponsorship

• Authorised to work in United Kingdom

(ILR, Tier 2 dependent visa and EU Settlement Scheme considered)