Data Team Lead

We’re looking for a Data Team Lead to lead a team of 6 Data Engineers, combining deep technical delivery with leadership, mentorship, and strategic influence.

This is a true 50/50 role where you’ll remain hands-on technically while acting as the team’s internal lead, technical authority, and subject matter expert across data engineering and platform architecture.

You’ll shape how data is built, moved, governed, and scaled across projects, while developing a strong, modern engineering culture.

What You’ll Be Doing - Technical (50%):

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines and platforms
• Hands-on development across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and modelling
• Owning technical standards, architecture decisions, and best practices
• Driving performance, reliability, and data quality improvements
• Leading technical problem-solving on complex data challenges

Leadership & Strategy (50%):

• Leading and mentoring a team of 6 Data Engineers
• Acting as internal technical authority and SME for data engineering
• Partnering with product, analytics, and business teams
• Setting engineering direction, priorities, and delivery standards
• Supporting hiring, onboarding, and team growth
• Translating business needs into scalable technical solutions

What We’re Looking For

Core experience:

• Strong background in data engineering in production environments
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers (formal or informal leadership)
• Proven ability to balance hands-on delivery with leadership responsibility

Technical skills (not all required, but relevant):

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Data warehouses / lakes (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, etc.)
• ETL/ELT tooling and orchestration (Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, etc.)
• SQL and Python
• Modern data architecture and platform design

Leadership traits:

• Trusted technical decision-maker
• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Calm under pressure, structured thinker, delivery-focused
• Passion for building strong engineering culture

Why This Role Stands Out:

• Real technical ownership and influence
• True hands-on leadership (not a step away from engineering)
• Opportunity to shape the data platform and team direction
• Strong autonomy and trust
• Clear impact on business outcomes

If you're a senior data engineer or tech lead ready to step into a role that blends engineering excellence with leadership influence, this is a rare opportunity to do both.

For any questions, contact Lucy on [email protected]