Lead Data Engineer

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will take charge of a Data Engineering team focused on data ingestion and modelling.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

• Leading the design, build and optimisation of ETL pipelines and ingestion frameworks.
• Owning core data engineering solutions across modelling, transformation and orchestration.
• Acting as a technical lead while providing light people leadership to a growing team.
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders to shape data architecture and best practice.
• Driving high coding standards and contribute to long-term platform scalability.

The successful Lead Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong commercial experience working as a Data Engineer in AWS.
• Solid programming skills in Python and strong SQL capability.
• Exposure to orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
• Experience with modern data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform or Pulumi.

The successful Lead Data Engineer will receive the following benefits:

• Salary between £90,000 - £110,000 - depending on experience.
• Fully remote work.

They are a high-growth online gambling and sports betting platform backed by significant recent investment and focused on delivering an intuitive, mobile-first user experience. The environment is modern, engineering-driven, and designed for people who enjoy solving complex technical problems in a fast-moving setting.