Lead Data Engineer

Our client is looking for an experienced hands on Technical Lead to support two strategic initiatives that will transform the way the organisation designs, manages, and consumes its enterprise data platforms.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, suited to someone who enjoys remaining close to the technology while providing design leadership, stakeholder engagement, and technical direction across the delivery lifecycle.

About the Role

Working within a high-performing data team, you will lead the technical design and implementation of modern data solutions on AWS and Databricks. You'll be responsible for translating business requirements into scalable technical designs, producing low-level solution designs (LLDs), and contributing directly to development where required.

You'll work closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are aligned with both business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of enterprise data engineering initiatives.
• Produce high-quality low-level solution designs (LLDs) and technical specifications.
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions using AWS and Databricks.
• Remain hands-on with development, code reviews, and technical implementation.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to data engineers throughout delivery.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and data governance standards.
• Support deployment, testing, and production implementation activities.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a Technical Lead or Senior Data Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and building modern data platforms.
• Mandatory experience with Databricks
• Strong AWS data platform experience (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR and related services desirable).
• Experience producing Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and technical architecture documentation.
• Strong coding capability with Python, SQL, or Spark.
• Experience designing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT solutions, and modern data architectures.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

What's on Offer

• Six-month contract with an immediate start.
• Opportunity to lead two high-profile strategic data initiatives.
• 2-3 days WFH

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