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Lead Data Engineer
£80,000 - 90,000
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Enterprise Road, Basingstoke
£80,000 - 90,000
Requirements
Must:
- Hands-on Azure experience in production environments
- Experience contributing to or leading a cloud data migration (e.g. GCP → Azure, on-prem → Azure)
- Strong SQL and data modelling skills
- Proven experience building and owning data lakes, warehouses, or lakehouse platforms
- Hands-on experience with ETL / ELT pipelines (batch and/or near real-time)
- Experience building system-to-system integrations (HR, Finance, ERP, CRM, or operational systems)
- Solid understanding of APIs, integration patterns, monitoring, and error handling
- Experience with data governance, security, and access controls
- Comfortable leading or mentoring other data engineers
- Able to work closely with non-technical stakeholders and translate business needs into technical solutions
- A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset - prioritises outcomes over perfection
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day data engineering and integration landscape
- Help shape modern cloud architecture
- Mentor a small team of data engineers
- Lead the migration from GCP to Azure
- Modernise the data platform
- Connect a complex ecosystem of finance, HR, and core operational systems
- Interact regularly with senior leadership, including the CFO
Description
We are a rapidly growing, multi-site healthcare organisation currently undergoing a major digital transformation. Our Data & Business Intelligence function is expanding, and we are looking for a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to take ownership of our Azure migration and enterprise integration strategy. This role offers strong visibility across the business and remote/hybrid working options, with only two days a month onsite in Basingstoke.
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