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# Technical Lead - Data Integration Platform

- **Company:** Synechron
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Automation of Tests, BigQuery, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Storage, Continuous Integration, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Flow Control, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Google Cloud, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Lineage, Data Management, Terraform, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/technical-lead-data-integration-platform/47713111

## About the Role

integration platform on Google Cloud Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of reliable ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow, improve CI/CD and platform automation, and create clear end-to-end data lineage from source systems to downstream vendors. What you'll do: Lead platform architecture, technical roadmap, and engineering delivery. Design and develop scalable Airflow pipelines using Python. Improve reliability through retries, idempotency, reconciliation, and resilient failure handling. Evolve multi-tenant architecture, configuration, and metadata-driven processing. Strengthen CI/CD, automated testing, security checks, and deployment processes. Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and data lineage. Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, architecture, governance, and vendor teams. What you'll bring: Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Senior Data Engineer. Strong production experience with Apache Airflow, Python, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Hands-on GCP experience with services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, GKE, or Cloud Run. Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code-ideally Terraform-and cloud security. Knowledge of multi-tenant platforms, data quality, observability, or lineage is highly desirable. Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills. If you enjoy building reliable data platforms, solving complex integration challenges, and helping engineering teams deliver with confidence, we'd love to hear from you.



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