Lead Data Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
In-Office
Senior level
Software • Financial Services
The Role
Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, define technical vision, collaborate with stakeholders, develop data pipelines, and ensure data quality.
Summary Generated by Built In

What you will deliver

  • Lead and Mentor: Lead, manage, and mentor a team of 3-6 data engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.

  • Technical Vision & Ownership: Own and define the technical vision, providing architectural guidance and best practices for data modelling, ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and data lake solutions.

  • Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure successful delivery of data solutions.

  • Hands-on Development: Be a hands-on contributor to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines and platforms, leveraging a modern data stack.

  • Data Quality & Testing: Implement and champion robust testing strategies for data pipelines, including unit testing, integration testing, and data quality checks, to ensure accuracy, reliability, and completeness of data.

Your Skills and Experience

Essential

  • Extensive Data Engineering Experience: Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Data Engineer, with a strong track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex data pipelines and platforms.

  • Technical Expertise:

    • Languages: Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.

    • Cloud Platform: Hands-on experience with AWS services (EMR, Athena, Lambda, S3, Glue, Step Functions).

    • Data Warehousing: In-depth experience with Snowflake.

    • Big Data Processing: Experience with Spark and familiarity with Scala (even if limited).

    • Orchestration: Solid experience with Airflow for workflow orchestration.

    • Data Transformation: Hands-on experience with DBT (Data Build Tool).

    • Version Control: Proficient with Git and GitHub, including experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

  • Leadership & Management:

    • Demonstrated experience in leading, mentoring, and managing a team of data engineers.

    • Ability to motivate and inspire a team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.

    • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable

  • Real-time data processing

  • Data governance and data quality frameworks

  • Data operations and observability

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Top Skills

Airflow
AWS
Dbt
Git
Git
Python
Scala
Snowflake
Spark
SQL
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The Company
HQ: London
1,150 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

At NewDay, our business is focused on a single, clear and defining purpose: to help people move forward with credit.

We provide nearly 4 million customers with responsible access to credit, underpinned by best-in-class customer service and exceptional user experience. Our in-house, highly scalable digital platform alongside our proprietary credit decisioning capability unlocks our competitive advantage.

Our broad credit product offering enables instalment finance, BNPL, 0% finance and carded and digital revolving credit. We operate multiple direct-to-consumer products and a range of credit solutions with some of the UK’s most loved brands.

Our underwriting capability and experience allow us to responsibly say yes to more UK customers making us a merchant partner of choice. We partner to harness the power of data to drive commerce across the UK, creating value at scale.

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