Job Title: Lead Data Engineer
Location: Central London, 2 days in the office a week
Salary: 90,000 + 10% Bonus
About the Role: Seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join a Digital Squad and play a pivotal role in providing both technical leadership and engineering management. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will write code while managing and mentoring a team of three data engineers. You will work closely with Product Management to deliver innovative solutions, organise architecture needs, and solve complex data challenges at scale.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead data engineering efforts across the full spectrum, from architecture and data modelling to implementation, in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of three data engineers, providing technical leadership and line management.
- Work alongside Product Management to identify and solve data problems, ensuring scalable and efficient solutions.
- Take ownership of data architecture, modelling, and engineering needs.
- Design and implement data pipelines, working across ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
- Work with event-driven data at scale to deliver robust and high-performing systems.
- Balance hands-on coding and leadership responsibilities to drive team success.
- Collaborate with the broader data team, including data science, BI, and customer insights, to deliver impactful data solutions.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Hands-on coding skills in:
- GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
- Python
- SQL
- Experience with modern data tools such as DBT (or similar tools like Dataform), Airflow, etc.
- Expertise in data modelling and architecture, particularly for large-scale event-driven data systems.
- Ability to design and optimise solutions to handle data at scale.
- Strong technical problem-solving skills with a collaborative mindset.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary: 90,000 + 10% bonus
- Hybrid working environment
- Opportunity to lead and grow a high-impact data engineering function
- Collaborative and innovative team culture
If you are interested or think you'll be a good match please apply.
