Lead Data Engineer (Kafka/Kinesis)

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London / £90000 - £100000 annum

INFO

Salary

SALARY:

£90000 - £100000

Location

LOCATION

London

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Lead Data Engineer

Up to £100,000
*Kafka or Kinesis required
London (4 days onsite)

This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of building and architecting a greenfield data platform for an AI‑driven product.

THE COMPANY:

This is an early-stage, venture-backed company building the operating system for modern property management through its AI platform.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of the entire data architecture, acting as the most senior individual contributor within Data Engineering. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on technical ownership rather than people management.
Key responsibilities include:
  • Designing and owning the company's data architecture from the ground up
  • Building scalable batch and real-time data pipelines
  • Developing data ingestion, storage, and transformation frameworks
  • Supporting AI and machine learning infrastructure, including vector search systems
  • Implementing data quality, monitoring, and observability practices
  • Collaborating closely with AI, backend engineering, and product teams
  • Optimising performance, scalability, and reliability of large datasets
  • Influencing long-term technical strategy and laying foundations for the data function

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:
  • Python development and building scalable distributed data systems
  • Data architecture design and pipeline development
  • Batch and streaming data processing
  • Relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
  • NoSQL and modern vector databases (e.g., Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector)

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

CONTACT

Molly Bird

Senior Recruitment Consultant

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