Lead Data Engineer

🔥 20 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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CreateFuture - Design & Innovation

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing

CreateFuture - Design & Innovation is a design services company specializing in various aspects of digital and brand development. Their expertise includes marketing strategy, digital product design, consulting, innovation, proposition development, customer experience, and team enablement. They focus on helping businesses create impactful solutions that drive growth and enhance customer engagement.

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction of a data engagement • Set standards for pipeline architecture, data modelling, testing, and operational readiness • Lead and technically direct a team of data engineers, allocating work, reviewing designs and code, and unblocking technical challenges • Design and evolve data platform architecture on Microsoft Fabric, including data pipelines, Azure OneLake, and the broader Azure ecosystem • Set and enforce CI/CD, testing, and operational practices using Azure DevOps • Build professional relationships with key client stakeholders and translate business and data requirements into a technical roadmap • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in live data pipelines • Lead incident response when issues occur • Collaborate with CreateFuture’s wider engineering capability to ensure technically excellent and commercially sound delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with a modern cloud data platform such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, or Synapse, including designing production data platforms • Deep SQL expertise and strong understanding of data modelling and architecture, including Kimball, data vault, medallion/lakehouse patterns, or domain modelling • Strong proficiency in Python and PySpark for batch/ELT data processing at scale • Experience leading or technically directing a team of data engineers • Experience setting standards for pipeline design, testing, and delivery • Experience owning CI/CD and operational practices for data engineering workflows, ideally using Azure DevOps • Experience working directly with client stakeholders • Familiarity with the broader Azure ecosystem, including Azure OneLake and Azure ML, particularly for model industrialisation

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working, including hybrid and remote options • Supportive and friendly culture • Investment in professional and personal growth • Occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed • Clear, fair, and respectful hiring process • Application adjustments or support available • Great Place to Work-Certified™ company • Best Workplaces UK recognition