Data Engineering Lead

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong data engineering experience with ownership of data platforms or warehouses
• Advanced SQL and Python skills
• Experience working within Azure environments
• Previous team leadership or mentoring experience
• Strong understanding of data architecture, engineering best practices, and data quality
• Comfortable working with legacy source systems and improving data reliability
• Able to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Data Engineers and Data Analysts
• Own our data engineering function, platform roadmap, and delivery priorities
• Design, build, and optimise data pipelines, integrations, and warehouse solutions
• Drive best practice across SQL, Python, data modelling, and engineering standards
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability
• Lead data quality, monitoring, and observability initiatives
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across the business to deliver data-driven outcomes
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and future platform requirements

Technologies

• AI
• Azure
• Backend
• Python
• SQL
• Cloud

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We are a market-leading, highly regulated organisation offering a newly created Data Engineering Manager role in a hybrid working setup with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote. This is a genuine player-coach opportunity with a roughly 60/40 split between hands-on engineering and leadership, giving you ownership of a growing data function while remaining actively involved in technical delivery. We work with Microsoft Azure, SQL, Python, data warehousing, data integrations, and backend engineering, and we take a pragmatic approach to technology while increasingly leveraging AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery. This is a fast-paced environment with genuine investment in data and technology, direct exposure to senior stakeholders, and significant influence over the future of our data platform and engineering function.

last updated 35 week of 2026