Flexible Senior Data Architect & Tech Lead

Bicycle Therapeutics; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering pharmaceutical company in Cambridge is seeking a Technical Architect to lead the design and management of a robust data ecosystem. This role involves building scalable data infrastructure and pipelines while ensuring data quality and collaboration across teams. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in data engineering, expertise in cloud environments like GCP or AWS, and strong skills in software development practices. Competitive rewards and a flexible working environment are offered.

Benefits

Competitive reward including annual company bonus

Employee recognition schemes

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer contribution to pension

Life assurance cover

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced parental leave policies

Access to subsidized gym membership

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of tools and workflows in data engineering.
• Experience designing and building systems in a major cloud environment.
• Hands-on across the full technical stack.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage the data infrastructure and pipelines.
• Lead the implementation of scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Ensure data quality and governance across data pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

Data pipeline automation

Python or R

Software engineering best practices

Education

Background in data engineering

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Flask

Django

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

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Job description

A pioneering pharmaceutical company in Cambridge is seeking a Technical Architect to lead the design and management of a robust data ecosystem. This role involves building scalable data infrastructure and pipelines while ensuring data quality and collaboration across teams. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in data engineering, expertise in cloud environments like GCP or AWS, and strong skills in software development practices. Competitive rewards and a flexible working environment are offered.