Data Engineering Lead

Salary: £80,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading and developing Data Engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud-based data platforms.
• Excellent SQL and Python skills.
• Extensive experience with Databricks, Spark and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering, data modelling and architecture best practice.
• Experience delivering data solutions for reporting, analytics and data science.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to balance strategic technical leadership with hands-on delivery.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience of large-scale technology transformation, data migration, platform modernisation or wider business change would also be beneficial.
• Exposure to technologies such as Tableau or low-code integration platforms would be advantageous but is not essential.

Responsibilities:

• Leading, mentoring and developing a team of Data Engineers.
• Providing technical leadership across scalable, reliable and secure data platforms.
• Remaining hands-on with complex data engineering and technical challenges.
• Leading the migration and modernisation of existing data platforms into a modern Databricks environment.
• Designing and maintaining high-quality data pipelines, models and curated datasets.
• Ensuring the stability, performance and continuous improvement of critical data platforms.
• Supporting wider technology and business transformation programmes.
• Working closely with BI, Data Science, Architecture, Technology and wider business stakeholders.
• Championing engineering best practice, including testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation and code reviews.
• Supporting Agile ways of working, including prioritisation, planning and delivery.
• Identifying opportunities to improve data platforms, tooling and engineering practices.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Databricks
• Python
• SQL
• Spark
• Tableau

More:

We are a leading Professional Services organisation in Bristol, offering a Data Engineering Lead opportunity within a team that is investing heavily in its data estate and cloud-based platform modernisation. This is a hybrid role with 3 days onsite in Bristol, a salary of up to £85,000 plus a 10% annual bonus, and a package that includes 25 days holiday plus additional holiday options, a generous pension contribution, healthcare and wellbeing benefits, enhanced family leave, life assurance, employee discount and benefits schemes, and excellent career development opportunities. We are looking for someone who enjoys combining hands-on engineering with team leadership and wants to help shape the future of our Databricks environment and wider data capability.

last updated 37 week of 2026