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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Hybrid Working Tria
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £145,000.0 - £160,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Enterprise Data Management, Data Processing, Cloud Platform System, Snowflake, Build Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hiredonline.co.uk/jobs/225748235-lead-data-engineer/tria

## About the Role

We're looking for someone who is still very hands-on but has started to take on more technical leadership and solution design responsibility.

You'll ideally have:

 * Strong commercial experience with Python & Snowflake
 * Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers
 * Experience with dbt, Airflow or similar data engineering tooling
 * A good understanding of data modelling and modern data platform architecture
 * Experience working with AWS (ideally) or another major cloud platform
 * The ability to take a business problem and turn it into a sensible technical solution
 * Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders

## Description

We're excited to be working exclusively with a leading international retailer, a group that is investing heavily in its data platform and looking for a Data Engineering Tech Lead to help shape the next stage of its Enterprise Data Platform.

This is a genuinely hands-on technical leadership role. You'll sit within a small data engineering squad, leading the technical direction while still getting stuck into the engineering yourself.

What you'll be doing

 * Lead the technical direction of the Data Engineering squad and help define engineering standards and best practices
 * Design and build scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL and Snowflake
 * Work closely with Architecture and Engineering to solution complex data problems
 * Help evolve the wider Enterprise Data Platform, including data modelling, integrations, performance and reliability
 * Work with cloud technologies (AWS) to move and process data into Snowflake. Don't worry if you come from a different cloud platform!
 * Mentor and support other data engineers, helping raise engineering standards across the team
 * Have a genuine say in how the platform evolves rather than simply delivering against a predefined technical spec., You'll be joining a well-established business at a hugely exciting point in its data journey, with the opportunity to have a real influence on the architecture and direction of the platform.