Data Engineering Lead — Hybrid, Azure-Driven Delivery

Freshlystaged; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

24 days' holiday

Gym discounts

Enhanced family leave

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

ICAEW in Milton Keynes is seeking a Data Engineering Lead to guide a small team of two data engineers and to deliver robust data pipelines and platforms. The role is permanent with a hybrid working pattern and a salary of £75,000 - £85,000 per annum.

You will shape architecture, improve analytics and reporting, and work closely with Data Analytics & Reporting teams to ensure data is secure, scalable and well-governed.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in data engineering, with a lead or senior role
• Experience leading data engineering delivery in a Microsoft-first environment - Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Azure Data Lake
• Hands‑on experience building and managing ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes and data warehouses in a cloud environment
• Proficient in Python and SQL, familiarity with Scala or R advantageous
• Experience with data orchestration and workflow management tooling such as Azure Data Factory or Airflow

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the data engineering team, ensuring delivery of robust, reliable pipelines and platforms
• Manage delivery of data engineering projects, ensuring timely outputs aligned to ICAEW's transformation programme
• Define and enforce engineering standards, patterns and best practices across the team
• Design and implement scalable data architectures including data lakes, warehouses and integration layers
• Ensure data is accessible, well‑structured and compliant with governance, quality and security requirements
• Work as a peer to the Data Analytics & Insights Lead, ensuring engineering and analytics capability develop in step with each other

Skills

Lead data engineer

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Synapse

Azure Data Lake

Python

SQL

Airflow

Tools

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data warehouses

Data lakes

Job description

ICAEW in Milton Keynes is seeking a Data Engineering Lead to guide a small team of two data engineers and to deliver robust data pipelines and platforms. The role is permanent with a hybrid working pattern and a salary of £75,000 - £85,000 per annum.

You will shape architecture, improve analytics and reporting, and work closely with Data Analytics & Reporting teams to ensure data is secure, scalable and well-governed.