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Data Technical Lead

London, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead data engineering and data platform teams to design, build, and modernize scalable, secure, and high-performing data platforms supporting analytics, operational workloads, and AI use cases for clients.

Role type

Senior IC Data Technical Lead (Platform & Architecture)

Builds

Enterprise-scale data platforms, modernization projects, and data products for clients across seven sectors.

Domain

Data Engineering, Cloud Architecture, AI/ML Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure | product features

Required skills

Technical leadership of data teams, modern data platform design (Lakehouse, Medallion, Data Mesh), architectural decision-making, software engineering practices (CI/CD, IaC), data quality and governance, data platform modernization/migration, technology trade-off analysis, end-to-end engineering lifecycle management.

Preferred skills

GenAI engineering practices, event streaming expertise, open table formats knowledge.

Technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, dbt, Great Expectations, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

Responsibilities

Steer technical teams through complex challenges and guide clients toward successful digital transformations; provide mentorship to engineers and foster continuous improvement; live in-person whiteboarding sessions to solve problems as a team; help teams use GenAI effectively across engineering delivery; provide technical input into bids, proposals, and client discussions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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