Lead Data Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Data Engineering and modern cloud data platforms, with AWS preferred.
• Strong SQL expertise and experience with dbt or similar ELT tools.
• Experience building and optimising scalable data pipelines and data warehouses.
• Knowledge of AWS technologies such as Redshift, S3 and Athena.
• Experience with Airflow, Fivetran or similar orchestration and integration tools.
• Strong Linux/Unix and Bash scripting skills.
• Solid understanding of data quality, governance, lineage and monitoring.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to influence technical direction across engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, warehouse models and transformations.
• Own the day-to-day technical direction of the cloud data platform, ensuring solutions are performant, reliable and cost-effective.
• Define engineering standards, code quality, CI/CD processes and best practices across the team.
• Drive improvements in data quality, observability, monitoring and governance.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with Analytics, Data Science and Platform Engineering teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

Technologies:

• Airflow
• AWS
• Redshift
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Fivetran
• Linux
• SQL
• Unix
• dbt

More:

We are a growing technology business building a modern cloud data platform. This is a senior individual contributor role where we will give you genuine technical ownership rather than people management responsibility. You will work in a collaborative London office with hybrid working, and we offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays increasing with service, private healthcare, dental cover, pension, life assurance, income protection, a 4pm finish every Friday, enhanced parental leave, an Employee Assistance Programme, regular social events and a £150 home office allowance. You will have the opportunity to shape scalable data solutions, mentor engineers and help drive technical excellence and career progression.

last updated 30 week of 2026