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Data Engineering Lead in London, United Kingdom

Tria

  • On-siteWork from the office
  • Full-timeStandard weekly hours
  • ContractFixed-term or freelance

£70k - £78k per annum

London, United Kingdom

Salary: £70,000 - 78,000 per year Requirements:

  • Strong hands-on data engineering experience in modern cloud-based environments
  • Experience with Snowflake and building scalable data platforms
  • Expertise in data integration, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data warehousing
  • Good understanding of data governance, security, and best practices
  • Previous experience mentoring, leading, or developing team members
  • Comfortable working autonomously and acting as the senior data authority within a business
  • Enjoys solving complex problems and building capability where none previously existed
  • We cannot offer sponsorship for this opportunity
Responsibilities:
  • Take ownership of our data platform and Snowflake environment
  • Design, build, and optimise data pipelines and integrations across multiple business systems
  • Improve data quality, reliability, performance, and monitoring
  • Bring fragmented data together to create a scalable and trusted data ecosystem
  • Define data architecture, standards, governance, and security controls
  • Work closely with senior technology leadership to shape the long-term data roadmap
  • Collaborate with third-party partners as we transition more data ownership in-house
Technologies:
  • Cloud
  • ETL
  • Security
  • Snowflake

More:

We are supporting a well-known, high-profile organisation in its search for a Data Engineering Lead. Based in West London, this is an on-site role paying up to £78,000 plus benefits. It offers a senior, hands-on data engineer genuine ownership and influence as our lead data specialist, with the opportunity to evolve the data platform, shape our data strategy, and build a modern data capability. Youll have the freedom to influence technology decisions, introduce best practices, shape the future data landscape, and work directly with senior leadership. This is an opportunity to build something meaningful rather than inherit a large team and simply maintain existing systems.

last updated 43 week of 2026

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