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Engineering Lead - Data Engineering - Schroders

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Overview

The Engineering Lead is a highly proficient, versatile, and active engineer who collaborates across one or more Engineering delivery teams to deliver high-quality data quickly and reliably. The role requires up-to-date knowledge of design and best practices in data engineering and a focus on creating a collaborative engineering culture.

This role leads the continued improvement of data design, implementation, and delivery, prioritising sustainable engineering practices. The Engineering Lead guides and mentors developers (including 3rd party partners), setting technical objectives and reviewing performance. They work with Enterprise Engineering and Enterprise Software Engineering to shape development culture, contributing to standards, patterns, practices, reference architectures, and shared components that enhance how engineering and software are delivered to the business.

What you’ll do
  • Lead the team technically to deliver data sources and data capabilities (tools, data sources, and data products that enable business teams to find, create, and exploit data) across a range of technologies and stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with business subject matter experts and technology counterparts to deliver data solutions, create reusable patterns and templates, and mentor the team. This is a hands-on role that also involves people management and coaching.
  • Work within backlog-focused squads, contributing to analysis, owning solution designs, and overseeing implementation and testing of data pipelines.
  • Be comfortable with agile methodology (Scrum or Kanban) and contribute to ceremonies; may assist with Scrum Master duties and maintenance of artefacts.
  • Require Snowflake experience to start effectively; Snowflake certifications are advantageous. Experience with Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, or DBT is highly desirable for building data ingestion processes and data warehousing/data product development.
  • Support personal development within the team, value innovation, and explore AI/ML within the data platform to expand services and automate workloads.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications
  • Experience with cloud technologies, ideally in Azure and AWS.
  • Excellent Python skills in a data engineering context.
  • Excellent SQL / SnowQL knowledge with the ability to write optimized SQL and understand differences across SQL engines.
  • Practical understanding of SQL profiling and performance trade-offs.
  • Good working knowledge of agile methodology, capable of following the framework and contributing to team success, with occasional Scrum Master duties.
  • Experience implementing a data quality framework.
  • Strong ability to build data pipelines that robustly handle failures.
  • Solid understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, idempotency, and other data engineering best practices; ability to share with junior team members.
  • Competency in data modeling (3rd Normal Form, star schemas, wide/tall projections); Data Mesh experience is advantageous.
  • Good knowledge of source control (GitHub) and working on a shared codebase.
  • Strong background and up-to-date knowledge of cloud-based data platform technologies (Snowflake, AWS, Azure).
  • AI coding experience, especially in data or automation spaces.
What you’ll be like
  • Friendly, approachable, collaborative team player who mentors junior colleagues when required.
  • Continuous improvement mindset; thoughtful about standard approaches to ensure practical value.
  • Self-motivated with initiative to help the team improve engineering processes.
  • Continuous learner; willing to develop technical skills on current toolsets and related areas such as data modelling and architecture.
  • Problem solver who analyzes, breaks down, and resolves complex and sometimes ambiguous requirements.
  • Down-to-earth, honest, and straightforward; able to stand ground and communicate ideas without being confrontational.
Equality and inclusion

We recognise potential, whoever you are. Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. An inclusive culture supports better decisions and outcomes. We are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your race, gender, age, beliefs, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.

About us

We’re a global investment manager helping institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest to meet goals and prepare for the future. We have around 6,000 people on six continents and have been around for over 200 years; we continue to adapt as society and technology changes while remaining committed to helping clients and society prosper.


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