Cloud-First Data Engineering Lead

Dunelm; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunelm is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to shape how data is used at scale. You will provide technical and people leadership for the data engineering capability, mentoring engineers and guiding a cloud-first data platform strategy.

You will partner with architecture and technology leadership to align data platform direction with enterprise standards, governance and cost efficiency, while balancing line management and hands-on design work.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience line managing technical colleagues.
• Design and development of modern data stack and cloud-first platforms.
• Expertise with Snowflake, AWS, DBT and data modelling.
• Proficient in SQL; programming in Python or Node.
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform, GitHub/GitLab).

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineers and mentor the team.
• Design technical solutions across the data platform and ensure timelines and quality.
• Provide epic/story estimates focusing on technical complexity and dependencies.
• Own technical risks and remediation actions for the data ecosystem.
• Support delivery of Dunelm’s data strategy and 3-year plan.

Skills

Line management

Modern data stack

Snowflake

AWS

DBT

SQL

Data modelling

Python/Node

CI/CD

GitHub/GitLab

Terraform

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

S3

Kinesis

DBT Labs

Job description

Dunelm is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to shape how data is used at scale. You will provide technical and people leadership for the data engineering capability, mentoring engineers and guiding a cloud-first data platform strategy.

You will partner with architecture and technology leadership to align data platform direction with enterprise standards, governance and cost efficiency, while balancing line management and hands-on design work.