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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Technical Lead - **Company:** UCL - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Meta-Data Management, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Enterprise Data Management, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Data Management - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR739/senior-technical-lead ## About the Role To be considered for this exciting and challenging role, the candidate will be required to have strong mix of the following technical skills and experience: * Extensive expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Azure preferred). * Strong experience designing and building enterprise-grade Data Lakes / Lakehouses, ETL/ELT, streaming, and distributed compute. * Expertise in SQL, Python, data modelling, metadata management, data cataloguing and lineage. * Strong understanding of governance, security, compliance and data quality frameworks. * Experience designing scalable architectures (batch, near-real-time, streaming). * Ability to lead technical delivery in Agile and hybrid environments ## Description About us UCL is a world-leading teaching and research university, often ranked in the top ten in the world with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Part of UCL's vision is to take on the hardest global challenges. The Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. About the role You will be required to provide advanced technical leadership for architecting, building and scaling UCL's enterprise data platform. This includes modern data engineering, cloud data lakehouse development, distributed compute, data modelling, metadata/lineage services, self-service analytics enablement, and AI-driven data automation. About you To be considered for this exciting and challenging role, the candidate will be required to have strong mix of the following technical skills and experience: * Extensive expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Azure preferred). * Strong experience designing and building enterprise-grade Data Lakes / Lakehouses, ETL/ELT, streaming, and distributed compute. * Expertise in SQL, Python, data modelling, metadata management, data cataloguing and lineage. * Strong understanding of governance, security, compliance and data quality frameworks. * Experience designing scalable architectures (batch, near-real-time, streaming). * Ability to lead technical delivery in Agile and hybrid environments What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: * 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) * Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme * Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) * Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan * Immigration loan * Relocation scheme for certain posts * On-Site nursery * On-site gym * Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay * Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service * Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we wantour community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We arecommitted to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to beinga place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to beunderrepresented in UCL's workforce. 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