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# (198544) Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0 - £90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Business Analytics Applications, Big Data, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Workflow Management Systems, Snowflake, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Management, Terraform, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2854473720-2

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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


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