CareerPlan

Head of Data Engineering

London, GBFull-time2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead a data engineering team to build a modern, Snowflake-centric data platform that delivers trusted, reusable data products for investment decisions, client reporting, and AI use cases.

Role type

Senior IC/Lead Data Engineering Manager (Asset Management)

Builds

Scalable data products, ingestion/transformation pipelines, and AI-ready data layers on Snowflake

Domain

Financial Services / Asset Management

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Snowflake platform architecture, medallion/lakehouse patterns, ELT, data modeling, data governance, team leadership, cloud security, legacy platform migration

Preferred skills

Azure/Databricks, data mesh, investment data domain knowledge, AI-assisted engineering

Technologies

Snowflake, Azure, Databricks, dbt, Python, SQL

Responsibilities

Design and optimize Snowflake-based ingestion and transformation pipelines; implement medallion architecture and data governance standards; lead and mentor a distributed team across London and India; migrate legacy platforms to a modern data estate; partner with AI teams to build semantic models and AI-ready data.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities