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Team Lead, Data Engineering- Tech-Driven Prop Trading Firm

London, England, GBFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead and mentor a small team of Data Engineers to architect and build the firm's data platform, managed infrastructure, and metadata management systems.

Role type

Senior IC Team Lead, Data Engineering

Builds

Data platform capabilities, managed infrastructure, and metadata management systems

Domain

Financial services / Prop trading / Data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team leadership and mentoring, Data engineering architecture, Project ownership, Stakeholder coordination, Process improvement, Hands-on software development

Preferred skills

Scaling large data platforms, Technical roadmap management, Financial firm data platform needs

Technologies

Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Python, Java

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers, Drive project ownership for data platform architecture, Coordinate with stakeholders to understand requirements, Contribute to process discussions to maximize throughput, Perform hands-on software development and support activities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership