Lead Data Engineer

<p><b>Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year</b></p>
<b>Requirements:</b>
<ul><li>5 years in data engineering, including leadership or principal-level roles</li><li>Deep hands-on AWS experience: S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DMS, IAM, Step Functions</li><li>Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale data migrations</li><li>Expert-level Python and SQL</li><li>Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform</li><li>Data modelling and warehouse design (star schema, performance tuning)</li><li>Strong experience with dbt and modern ELT patterns</li><li>Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills</li></ul>
<b>Responsibilities:</b>
<ul><li>Migrate critical enterprise databases into AWS/CDP</li><li>Implement Change Data Capture (CDC)</li><li>Standardise data engineering patterns</li><li>Enable advanced analytics and ML use cases</li><li>Ensure strong documentation and governance</li><li>Facilitate knowledge transfer within the team</li></ul>
<b>Technologies:</b>
<ul><li>AWS</li><li>Lambda</li><li>Redshift</li><li>DMS</li><li>IAM</li><li>Python</li><li>SQL</li><li>Terraform</li><li>dbt</li><li>Cloud</li></ul>
<p><b>More:</b></p>
<p>We are establishing a dedicated Data Engineering Squad to deliver a large-scale AWS-based data migration and platform modernisation programme. Our team will play a crucial role in the migration process and the implementation of advanced data engineering practices. We value strong documentation and governance within our projects and are committed to knowledge transfer to enhance team capabilities.</p>
<p>last updated 8 week of 2026</p>