Director of Data Platform & Engineering

Precision AQ - International; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision AQ is building a Data Hub to consolidate legacy data infrastructure, establish enterprise data foundation and governance, and enable AI/ML capabilities across the organization. The Data Hub is moving from strategy to execution.

We have a charter, a roadmap, executive sponsorship, and a clear mandate: consolidate fragmented data pipelines into a governed, scalable platform that serves multiple business units and product lines.

Qualifications

• 5/8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams (hiring, performance management, delivery accountability)
• Experience with modern data stack: cloud data warehouses, transformation frameworks, orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and scale a high-performing engineering team.
• Own day-to-day engineering operations: sprint delivery, technical quality, capacity planning.
• Drive technical excellence: architecture decisions, code quality, DevOps/GitOps practices, production reliability.
• Be the primary escalation point for blockers, dependencies and risks.
• Partner with SVP on hiring, team development, vendor relationships, and strategic planning.
• Cross-functional coordination with Insights Hub, Evidence Solutions, Product Solutions and IT.

Skills

Data engineering

Team leadership

Architectural judgement

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

CI/CD

Job description

Precision AQ is building a Data Hub to consolidate legacy data infrastructure, establish enterprise data foundation and governance, and enable AI/ML capabilities across the organization. The Data Hub is moving from strategy to execution.

We have a charter, a roadmap, executive sponsorship, and a clear mandate: consolidate fragmented data pipelines into a governed, scalable platform that serves multiple business units and product lines.