Lead Data Engineer

An exciting technology led organisation in London is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join their growing platform team as they continue to build out their data and analytics capability.

• Based in: London
• Hybrid working: 1-2 days a week in the office
• Permanent role
• Start date: ASAP
• Salary: Up to £75k per annum

As the Lead Data Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the design and delivery of a modern cloud data platform supporting analytics, AI and client facing data products
• Owning data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation and data product layers
• Setting and maintaining data engineering standards, patterns and best practices across squads
• Mentoring and leading a small team of Data Engineers and working closely with Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists
• Remaining hands on with complex technical delivery, architecture decisions and code reviews
• Defining CI/CD, testing, observability and infrastructure as code standards for data pipelines
• Ensuring strong data governance, security controls and compliance across all datasets
• Partnering with Product and commercial teams on data initiatives and client data onboarding
• Supporting analytics, BI and AI/ML use cases with well structured, documented and reliable data models

• 5+ years' experience in data engineering or data platform roles
• Strong hands on experience with SQL, Python and distributed data processing
• Proven experience building and operating modern cloud data platforms
• Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks and Power BI
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code and data quality practices
• Solid knowledge of data security, access controls and governance
• Comfortable operating as a hands on technical leader, mentoring others and influencing standards
• Strong stakeholder communication skills

Sphere is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of ethnic origin, race, religious beliefs, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation, and any other protected status as required by applicable law.

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