Lead Data Engineer

• Lead the design and delivery of greenfield data platforms and analytics solutions across the full data lifecycle
• Balance hands on technical work with leadership responsibilities, spending time both building and guiding
• Manage and support a team of data engineers, providing direction, feedback and development support
• Own projects end to end, from initial requirements through to production delivery
• Work closely with stakeholders and clients, confidently challenging requirements and shaping best practice
• Design data models and business processes that support scalable analytics and reporting

• Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer with solid foundations in SQL and dimensional modelling
• Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery
• Good Python capability, including orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Proven experience building and managing data ingestion pipelines
• Cloud experience within AWS or GCP environments
• Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
• Confidence leading people and projects, with clear communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable operating in greenfield environments with a high degree of autonomy

• A modern, evolving tech stack with increasing use of AI driven features
• Clear scope to influence technical direction and ways of working
• Strong emphasis on work life balance and sustainable delivery
• The opportunity to grow alongside the business in a senior leadership capacity

They are a specialist consulting firm focused on digital transformation across data, analytics and technology. Operating as a hands on delivery partner, they embed consultants directly into client squads to modernise data platforms and ways of working from the ground up. Their work spans end to end delivery, selling professional services rather than software products, with a strong emphasis on quality, autonomy and work life balance.