Lead Data Engineer

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London / £100000 - £120000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

£100000 - £120000

Location

LOCATION

London

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent


Lead Data Engineer

Fully Remote (UK)

Up to £120,000 + Benefits

We're partnering with a high-growth, product-led digital business to hire a Lead Data Engineer to own and scale their data platform during an exciting phase of expansion.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll define technical direction, mentor engineers, and build reliable, production-grade data systems that power analytics and real-time decision-making across the company.

Why consider this role?

  • Own the data engineering strategy for a rapidly scaling platform

  • Lead architecture, pipelines, and engineering standards end-to-end

  • Fully remote role (UK-based)

  • Salary up to £120,000 plus a strong benefits package

  • High-impact position with genuine influence at senior level

What you'll be doing

  • Setting technical direction and best practices across the data function

  • Designing and scaling modern data pipelines and platforms

  • Partnering with senior stakeholders to align data initiatives to business goals

  • Coaching and developing data engineers

  • Embedding testing, monitoring, automation, and quality into the data stack

  • Driving long-term platform evolution and architecture decisions

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience in data engineering, including time in a lead role

  • Strong Python and SQL skills

  • Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)

  • Hands-on dbt, AWS, and modern data warehouses

  • Strong data modelling and architectural capability

  • Background scaling data platforms in high-growth environments

Nice to have

  • Snowflake or Apache Iceberg

  • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

  • Observability-driven data systems

Package & Benefits

  • Salary up to £120,000

  • Fully remote working

  • Home-office setup

  • Private healthcare and income protection

  • 25 days holiday + enhanced parental leave

  • Strong learning and development budget

CONTACT

Michael Bellchambers

Senior Recruitment consultant

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