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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Kinetech
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Integration, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, DevOps, Performance Tuning, Power BI, Standard Sql, Freeform SQL, System Availability, Microsoft Fabric, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/lead-data-engineer/kinetech-recruitment-job107858039

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on SQL expertise, including performance tuning
 * Proven experience with Microsoft Fabric and Synapse (design, architecture, implementation)
 * Experience working with Lakehouse architecture and multiple data sources
 * Demonstrable experience modernising data platforms (e.g. Bronze ? Gold maturity) or consolidating data into a central platform
 * Strong understanding of data engineering principles, governance, and data quality
 * Experience delivering and supporting production-grade data solutions
 * Ability to act as a senior technical escalation point and lead delivery
 * Strong stakeholder engagement skills, particularly around data quality challenges
 * Microsoft certifications (e.g. DP-600, DP-900)

Desirable Skills

 * Experience managing or mentoring engineers (or readiness to step into leadership
 * Exposure to DevOps / CI-CD practices within data engineering
 * Experience in complex or enterprise environments

## Description

Hybrid Working - 2-4 day per month in the office (East London / Essex)
Salary to £75k

A Lead Data Engineer is required for a transformational role. With Fabric already in place, the focus is now on maturing the data architectural environment from Bronze through to Gold over the next 12-18 months-improving architecture, data quality, and overall platform capability.

This is a hands-on leadership role, acting as the senior technical escalation point while helping shape best practice, refine existing pipelines, and drive data modernisation across a complex data landscape. This is more of a Technical Leadership than people Leadership role, though the director would be happy for someone inclined towards both or that wants to add on the people in time., * Design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines within Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Integration)

 * Refine and enhance existing pipelines and architecture to align with best practice
 * Lead the transition of the platform from Bronze to Gold standard
 * Develop and fine-tune complex SQL queries, transformations, and data models
 * Support and troubleshoot data issues impacting reporting (e.g. Power BI refresh failures)
 * Take ownership of data quality, governance, and platform reliability
 * Act as the technical escalation point for a team of Data Engineers
 * Lead, mentor, and support a small team (3 engineers) - negotiable if you'd prefer to remain technically oriented.
 * Work across multiple data sources (enterprise systems and bespoke applications) feeding into a Lakehouse
 * Engage stakeholders across the business to improve data quality and consistency


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