Sphere Digital Recruitment Group
Lead Data Engineer
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Lead Data Engineer
An exciting technology-led organisation in London is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join their growing platform team as they continue to build out their data and analytics capability.
Based in: London
Hybrid working: 1-2 days a week in the office
Permanent role
Start date: ASAP
Salary: Up to £83k per annum
The Job
As the Lead Data Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the design and delivery of a modern cloud data platform supporting analytics, AI and client-facing data products
- Owning data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation and data product layers
- Setting and maintaining data engineering standards, patterns and best practices across squads
- Mentoring and leading a small team of Data Engineers and working closely with Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists
- Remaining hands-on with complex technical delivery, architecture decisions and code reviews
- Defining CI/CD, testing, observability and infrastructure-as-code standards for data pipelines
- Ensuring strong data governance, security controls and compliance across all datasets
- Partnering with Product and commercial teams on data initiatives and client data onboarding
- Supporting analytics, BI and AI/ML use cases with well-structured, documented and reliable data models
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You
- 5+ years' experience in data engineering or data platform roles
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL, Python and distributed data processing
- Proven experience building and operating modern cloud data platforms
- Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks and Power BI
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and data quality practices
- Solid knowledge of data security, access controls and governance
- Comfortable operating as a hands-on technical leader, mentoring others and influencing standards
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
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Amy Brown
Principal Managing Consultant
Sphere Digital Recruitment
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