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Technical Lead, Data Platform Engineer

LondonFull-time2026-10-06 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead the engineering of a federated 'Data as a Product' platform, migrating from legacy systems to Snowflake to support data teams, Data Scientists, and AI Agents.

Role type

Senior IC Technical Lead, Data Platform Engineer

Builds

Snowflake data platform, streaming/batch ingestion pipelines, orchestration (Airflow), and the Data Product Portal

Domain

Fintech / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Snowflake (Iceberg, RBAC), Advanced SQL, Python, dbt, Kafka/CDC, Airflow, Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, Data security/governance

Preferred skills

Data contracts (ODCS/ODPS), Regulated financial services experience, Large platform migration experience, PySpark

Technologies

Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, dbt, Python, SQL, Iceberg

Responsibilities

Lead technical direction and architectural planning for the data platform; Own technical quality, security, governance, and operational excellence (on-call, incident response); Mentor engineers and establish review culture; Define reusable patterns and standards for domain teams; Lead the Athena to Snowflake migration; Manage vendor relationships; Explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders; Set standards for AI-assisted engineering.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities