Data Engineering Team Lead: Secure, Scalable Insights

Police Digital Service; England; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Police Digital Service is seeking a Data Engineering Team Lead to ensure high-quality, secure, scalable data is available to the organisation and to support management information and analytics.

You will lead a team of data engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate with data architects, analysts, data scientists, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders to enable data-driven decision making and cross-system integration across operational, intelligence, and corporate systems.

Qualifications

• Lead a team of data engineers and set technical standards.
• Ensure data quality, security, and reliability across systems.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts and cybersecurity teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end data pipelines and governance.
• Drive data-driven decision making and analytics initiatives.
• Foster cross-system integration across operational, intelligence and corporate platforms.

Skills

Team leadership

Data engineering

Python

SQL

ETL

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

The Police Digital Service is seeking a Data Engineering Team Lead to ensure high-quality, secure, scalable data is available to the organisation and to support management information and analytics.

You will lead a team of data engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate with data architects, analysts, data scientists, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders to enable data-driven decision making and cross-system integration across operational, intelligence, and corporate systems.