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Tech Lead, Data Engineering
£100,000 - 100,000
Xcede
Eversholt Street 24, South East London
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Experience as a Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, or senior Data Engineer owning complex, distributed systems
- Strong software engineering background with deep experience in Python and production grade practices
- Experience enabling machine learning systems in production environments rather than purely research use cases
- Advanced SQL skills and experience with modern cloud data warehouses
- Experience designing and operating data pipelines using tools such as dbt, Airflow, or similar frameworks
- Strong experience with Git based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, and operating long lived systems
- Proven ability to make sound architectural decisions balancing correctness, performance, and cost
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interrogate data directly
- Nice to Have: Experience with BI tools like Looker
- Nice to Have: Experience building internal data platforms that enable analytics teams
- Nice to Have: Exposure to workflow automation tools
- Nice to Have: Experience designing systems handling text, documents, images, or other non-tabular data
Responsibilities
- Own the data platform end to end, including ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers
- Lead the design of distributed data systems integrating backend services, external APIs, event streams, and data stores
- Partner with product and engineering teams to design data foundations for machine learning powered features in production
- Act as the lead architect for data models and data contracts across structured and unstructured data
- Set and uphold engineering standards, including documentation, architecture diagrams, and Architecture Decision Records
- Design and build scalable, fault tolerant ETL and ELT pipelines with clear trade offs around latency, freshness, and cost
- Remain hands on, building and maintaining core pipelines, schemas, and services in production
- Define the technical roadmap for data and provide mentorship through code reviews and technical guidance
- Design and implement workflow automation to reduce manual operational processes
- Establish governance frameworks covering access control, lineage, observability, and data quality
- Take ownership of production incidents, data quality issues, and platform cost management
Description
We are a fast-growing technology company investing heavily in our data platform as we scale our products and machine learning capabilities. Operating a high volume, transactional platform where data is central to our product development, we offer an opportunity for the Data Engineering Lead to take technical ownership of a modern data platform. You will join our team in London, working three days a week in the office. We provide competitive benefits including salary up to £110,000, hybrid working, a competitive holiday allowance, private healthcare, enhanced parental leave, a pension scheme, and a learning and development budget.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 93 different Data Engineer jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Data Engineers.