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Senior Data Engineer
£50,000 - 130,000
Catalyst
Ponteland Road 176, Newcastle upon Tyne
£50,000 - 130,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, or Lead Data Engineer, ideally gained in a fast-paced, growing technology-driven business
- Hands-on expertise with AWS data services and modern data warehouse technologies (e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, S3, Step Functions)
- Proven experience designing and building scalable data pipelines, data models, and ETL/ELT processes
- Strong understanding of data architecture, cloud engineering principles, security, governance, and best-practice engineering standards
- Ability to self-manage, take ownership of complex technical work and operate confidently as the internal lead on a major data platform build
- Experience collaborating with external suppliers or delivery partners, ensuring quality, alignment, and successful handover
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
- A positive, pragmatic approach, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
Responsibilities
- Leading the build of a new cloud-based data warehouse, working hands-on with AWS technologies and modern data-engineering tooling
- Acting as the internal technical owner for the outsourced data warehouse project, ensuring alignment between business needs, architectural decisions, and delivery outcomes
- Evaluating and selecting appropriate technologies, tools, and patterns to support a scalable, secure, and high-performing data platform
- Managing knowledge-transfer activity from the external provider, embedding best practice and ensuring the business can confidently own and extend the platform
- Designing and implementing robust data pipelines, modeling approaches, and integration patterns to support analytics, reporting, and operational use cases
- Establishing engineering standards, documentation, and processes to support long-term maintainability and future team growth
- Providing guidance, coaching, and leadership to colleagues as the function expands, fostering a positive, collaborative, and delivery-focused culture
- Working closely with product, engineering, finance, and operational stakeholders to understand data needs, prioritize work, and ensure timely delivery
Description
We are a successful tech scale-up with a cash-generative SME currently at approximately £10m turnover and around 80 staff. We aim to double in size in the next five years under the guidance of our experienced CEO and first-class senior leadership team. We are looking to appoint a Senior/Lead Data Engineer to strengthen our Data capability. This full-time, permanent role is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, offering excellent hybrid and flexible working options, along with a highly negotiable salary between £50,000 and £100,000, plus benefits. Additional rewards include free parking, on-site health facilities, staff events and discounts, and training opportunities.
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