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KDR Talent Solutions
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Specialist GCP Data Engineering Recruiter- Expert in helping companies mature and scale their Data Teams!

Lead Data Engineer | London | Remote with Ad Hoc travel | Up to £120k DOE + benefits

KDR have partnered with a business at the forefront of data-driven innovation in the insurance industry, determined to make insurance smarter.

As Lead Data Engineer, you’ll architect and deliver robust, scalable data systems that enable intelligent decision-making, helping the business better understand risk, improve customer experience, and streamline operations.

Reporting to the Head of Data, you’ll lead a high-performing data platform team, setting the vision, driving architecture, and rolling up your sleeves for hands-on coding.

What you’ll do

  • Architect & Deliver: Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data engineering solutions tailored to insurance operations and analytics.
  • Lead Stakeholder Engagement: Gather requirements for complex projects, ensuring alignment across actuarial teams, claims, underwriting, and corporate functions.
  • Own the Data Platform: Model and design enterprise-wide data structures to power analytics, BI, and operational decision-making.
  • Champion Automation: Implement a GCP-native medallion architecture- leveraging BigQuery for Bronze/Silver/Gold datasets, Dataform for transformation orchestration, Cloud Storage for raw data ingestion, and fine-grained IAM policies to secure each layer.
  • Integrate & Innovate: Connect diverse internal and external data sources- including market feeds and regulatory datasets- via Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and API integrations.
  • Drive Insights: Leverage data to improve services, pricing strategies, claims processing, and business outcomes.
  • Ensure Resilience: Maintain high availability, performance, and security for all data solutions.

What you’ll bring

  • Proven leadership in senior-level data engineering, software development, and systems integration.
  • End-to-end lifecycle experience- from design and development to deployment and optimisation.
  • Data pipelines, modelling, database design, and warehousing.
  • Google BigQuery, Looker, and GCP-native medallion architecture.
  • Building data platforms entirely on Google Cloud Platform, including Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Vertex AI, and Dataform.
  • Strong DevOps mindset with release management, CI/CD (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy), and agile delivery experience.
  • Strategic thinking, capable of driving transformation from “as-is” to “to-be” states.
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and resilience under pressure.
  • 25 days annual leave (accrues year by year up to 30 days)
  • Confidential employee assistance programme
  • Flexible & family-friendly working arrangements

Please click apply if you think this role seems like a good match!

(Candidates must be based in the UK with full rights to work and have extensive experience within GCP environments)

Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionInformation Technology
  • IndustriesStaffing and Recruiting and Insurance

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