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Lead Data Engineer
London | Hybrid (2 Days) | Up to £100,000 + 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 Lead Data Engineer 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.
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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
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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.
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