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Summary

Senior data engineering lead in Leeds driving data modernization, governance, and analytics platforms. Day to day: building scalable ETL/ELT and batch/real-time pipelines on AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus data modeling and mentoring, using SQL, Python, Spark, Airflow/DBT, and warehouses like BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.

A senior data engineering leader capable of driving data modernization, transformation, governance and analytics consumption initiatives while leading teams and delivering scalable cloud-native data platforms.

  • Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
  • Develop batch and real-time data processing solutions using modern cloud and big data technologies.
  • Design and implement data models, data marts, and analytics-ready datasets for reporting, BI, AI, and ML use cases.
  • Drive cloud data engineering initiatives across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
  • Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, security, and compliance across the data ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with Business, Data Architects, Data Scientists, and BI teams to deliver business value through data products.
  • Lead modernization of legacy data warehouses and support data lakehouse architectures and platform transformations.
  • Establish engineering best practices, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation standards.
  • Mentor and lead Data Engineers while conducting architecture reviews and technical governance.
  • Optimize platform performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud costs.

Core Technical Skills

  • SQL, Python, PySpark, Spark
  • Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snowflake, Data Vault)
  • Airflow, DataStage, Informatica, Talend, DBT
  • BigQuery, Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift
  • Kafka, Pub/Sub, Event Hub

Preferred Skills

  • Master Data Management (MDM)
  • AI/ML & GenAI Data Platforms

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