Lead Data Engineer – Consultancy – Eligible for SC – AWS - London

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Lead Data Engineer – Consultancy – Eligible for SC Clearance – AWS - London

I’m looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join a successful, multinational Consultancy in their London office working on high-profile client projects.

As a Lead Data Engineer you will analyzing complex client data landscapes and transforming them into robust, scalable solutions. As the ideal candidate you will excel at designing and implementing end-to-end data architecture, including ETL processes, efficient data pipelines, optimized storage solutions, and sophisticated data cleansing protocols. You will lead and mentor other Data Engineers on projects and champion best practices in data architecture.

To be considered you will be able to demonstrate skills and experience in many of the following:

  • Expertise in designing production-grade data pipelines using Python, Scala, Spark, and SQL

  • AWS (EMR, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB)

  • Experience with data processing across structured and unstructured sources

  • Strong scripting abilities and API integration skills

    Desirable but not essential:

  • Experience with data mining and machine learning

  • Natural language processing expertise

  • Multi-cloud platform experience

    Salary: £80,000 - £100,000 + 25 days holiday (option to buy 5 more) + pension + Performance Bonus + share options

    Location: Hybrid working – 2 days a week in the London office or on Client site

    SC Clearance Eligibility – you must be eligible for SC Security Clearance (or higher) – this means at least 5 years residence in the UK and in that time you’ve not been out the country for more than 29 days consecutively and no more than 6 months out the country per year

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