Lead Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• You’ll lead a team of Data Engineers while remaining close to the technical detail, helping shape the way our warehouse and wider data platform evolves.
• A large part of the role will focus on designing and developing robust data models and pipelines within our Snowflake environment, ensuring the business has access to reliable, scalable and well-structured data.
• You’ll work across a broad range of complex datasets, partnering with teams across the business to understand challenges, improve solutions and influence technical direction.
• Alongside the hands-on technical leadership, you’ll mentor and support your team, helping create an environment focused on collaboration, engineering best practice and continuous improvement.
• You’ll also play an important role in shaping standards, challenging approaches where appropriate and balancing long-term technical quality with commercial priorities.

• Strong commercial experience within Data Engineering, including experience operating in a Lead capacity
• Deep understanding of SQL and data warehousing concepts
• Strong Snowflake experience
• Experience with ELT tooling such as DBT and/or Fivetran
• Experience working with Python within data environments
• Strong understanding of data modelling and architecture principles
• Experience with AWS Glue, MySQL and MSSQL Server
• Understanding of testing strategies and engineering best practice
• Experience working within Agile environments.