# Lead Data Engineer

**Company:** Station
**Location:** United Kingdom
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

**Lead Data Engineer**

  

**Location:** Fully Remote (UK)

**Salary:** 75,000 - 85,000

**Contract:** Permanent, Full-Time

  

We're partnering with an established UK organisation to appoint a Lead Data Engineer as part of the continued development of its data engineering capability.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced Data Engineer who wants genuine ownership of modern data engineering solutions. You'll play a key role in shaping technical direction, improving engineering standards and designing scalable data platforms and pipelines that support reporting, analytics and wider business requirements.

The role is genuinely hands-on, so we're looking for someone with strong commercial production experience across technologies including Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Python and SQL.

You'll work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers, and remain heavily involved in the technology and delivery.

  

**Key Responsibilities**

-   Lead the design, development and optimisation of scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms
-   Take technical ownership of data engineering solutions and contribute to longer-term platform strategy
-   Work hands-on with Databricks and Snowflake to build, optimise and maintain production data solutions
-   Develop and maintain robust data transformation frameworks using dbt
-   Design and manage data orchestration workflows using Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory or similar
-   Write, optimise and troubleshoot complex SQL, ensuring data solutions are efficient, reliable and scalable
-   Drive improvements in data quality, performance, monitoring and engineering standards
-   Make informed technical and architectural decisions around data platforms, pipelines and tooling
-   Lead data engineering projects from initial requirements through to deployment and ongoing optimisation
-   Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to other Data Engineers
-   Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into effective data solutions
-   Identify opportunities to improve automation, scalability and the overall data engineering approach

  

**Required Experience**

-   5+ years' commercial experience within Data Engineering or a closely related role
-   Proven experience providing technical leadership to Data Engineers within a modern data environment
-   Strong, confident SQL skills, including writing, optimising and troubleshooting complex queries
-   Strong Python skills for data engineering and production data pipelines
-   Significant hands-on commercial experience with Databricks in a production environment
-   Strong hands-on experience with dbt, including developing and maintaining transformation models and frameworks
-   Proven experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory or equivalent
-   Strong experience with Snowflake, ideally alongside Databricks and dbt
-   Strong understanding of modern ETL/ELT, data modelling, data warehousing and data quality principles
-   Experience designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud-based data platforms and pipelines
-   Experience contributing to data architecture and technical design decisions
-   Strong understanding of Data Engineering best practice, with the ability to establish standards and improve existing approaches
-   Experience working across a modern data stack including Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Python and SQL
-   Excellent problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills

  

**What's on Offer**

-   **Fully remote working within the UK**
-   **75,000 - 85,000 salary**
-   Comprehensive benefits package
-   Genuine ownership of data engineering architecture and delivery
-   Opportunity to influence technical direction and engineering standards
-   Exposure to modern cloud technologies and complex data projects
-   Flexible working environment
-   Excellent opportunities for professional development and progression

  

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced **Lead Data Engineer** who wants to combine hands-on engineering with genuine technical leadership. You'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, establish best practice and take real ownership of data engineering solutions while remaining close to the technology.