Data Engineering Lead — Enterprise Platform & AI (Hybrid)

SLR Consulting

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Company pension
Healthcare
Travel insurance
Life insurance
25 days leave
Hybrid working
Career progression

Job summary

SLR Consulting is seeking a Data Engineering Lead to provide technical and operational leadership for our data platforms, pipelines and data assets, ensuring they are scalable, trusted and aligned with long-term business needs. You will lead the design and evolution of the data engineering ecosystem, set engineering standards, and guide delivery of high-quality data solutions across the organisation.

Collaborating with analytics, BI, platform and business stakeholders, you will champion data as

Qualifications

  • Experience leading enterprise-scale data engineering platforms.
  • Strong SQL and Python, PySpark for ingestion and transformation.
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric or similar cloud analytics platforms.
  • Experience with Medallion Architecture, star and snowflake schemas.
  • Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards.
  • Implement data quality, governance, security and operational controls.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and evolution of the enterprise data platform.
  • Partner with architects to align data engineering with strategy and standards.
  • Drive modern data architectures, data products and scalable services.
  • Mentor data engineers and support career development.
  • Oversee data pipelines, quality, monitoring and governance.
  • Establish CI/CD, testing, version control, IaC and documentation.
  • Drive platform performance, reliability and cost optimisation.

Skills

SQL
Python
PySpark
Data modeling
CI/CD
Microsoft Fabric
Stakeholder comms

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

SLR Consulting is seeking a Data Engineering Lead to provide technical and operational leadership for our data platforms, pipelines and data assets, ensuring they are scalable, trusted and aligned with long-term business needs. You will lead the design and evolution of the data engineering ecosystem, set engineering standards, and guide delivery of high-quality data solutions across the organisation.

Collaborating with analytics, BI, platform and business stakeholders, you will champion data as

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