Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

London | Hybrid (2 Days) | Up to £95,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

We're excited to be working exclusively with a leading international retailer, a group that is investing heavily in its data platform and looking for a Data Engineering Tech Lead to help shape the next stage of its Enterprise Data Platform.

This is a genuinely hands-on technical leadership role. You'll sit within a small data engineering squad, leading the technical direction while still getting stuck into the engineering yourself.

What you'll be doing

Lead the technical direction of the Data Engineering squad and help define engineering standards and best practices

Design and build scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and Snowflake

Work closely with Architecture and Engineering to solution complex data problems

Help evolve the wider Enterprise Data Platform, including data modelling, integrations, performance and reliability

Work with cloud technologies (AWS) to move and process data into Snowflake. Don't worry if you come from a different cloud platform!

Mentor and support other data engineers, helping raise engineering standards across the team

Have a genuine say in how the platform evolves rather than simply delivering against a predefined technical spec.

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone who is still very hands-on but has started to take on more technical leadership and solution design responsibility.

You'll ideally have:

Strong commercial experience with Python & Snowflake

Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers

Experience with dbt, Airflow or similar data engineering tooling

A good understanding of data modelling and modern data platform architecture

Experience working with AWS (ideally) or another major cloud platform

The ability to take a business problem and turn it into a sensible technical solution

Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Why join?

You'll be joining a well-established business at a hugely exciting point in its data journey, with the opportunity to have a real influence on the architecture and direction of the platform.

There's a strong mix of technical ownership, hands-on engineering and leadership, without moving you completely away from the technology.

Sound good? Great! Please apply with an up to date CV