Engineering Lead - Data Engineering

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The Engineering Lead is a highly proficient, versatile, and active engineer with excellent communication skills. The Engineering Lead works across one or more delivery teams to deliver high‑quality data quickly and reliably, and strives to create a collaborative engineering culture.

The role requires a high level of competence and up‑to‑date knowledge on design and best practice in data engineering.

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• Continuously improve data design, implementation, and delivery, embedding sustainable engineering practices, guiding and mentoring developers, and setting technical objectives.
  
• Collaborate with Enterprise Engineering and Enterprise Software Engineering to shape development culture, contributing to standards, patterns, practices, reference architectures, shared components, and other improvements.
  

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• Experience of cloud technologies, ideally in Azure and AWS.
  
• Excellent Python skills within data engineering in a commercial setting.
  
• Excellent SQL / Snow SQL knowledge and understanding of optimisation.
  
• Practical understanding of profiling SQL and managing performance trade‑offs.
  
• Good working knowledge of agile methodology and ability to follow and contribute to ceremonies.
  
• Experience of implementing a data quality framework.
  
• Highly knowledgeable in building robust data pipelines and data modelling (star schemas, projections).
  
• Strong background in cloud‑based data platform technologies such as Snowflake, AWS, and Azure.
  
• AI coding experience, especially in data or automation, is a plus.
  

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• Friendly, approachable, collaborative, and a mentor to junior colleagues.
  
• Continuous improvement mindset, always thinking about the status quo.
  
• Self‑motivated, showing initiative and keen to improve engineering processes.
  
• A continuous learner, willing to spend time developing technical skills.
  
• Problem solver, comfortable analysing and resolving complex requirements.
  
• Down‑to‑earth, honest, and straightforward, able to stand ground and communicate ideas respectfully.
  

We are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here regardless of age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio‑economic background, or any other protected characteristics.