Head of Data Engineering (Data Platform & AI)

Women in Data®; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme up to 18%

Share Save and Share Incentive Plan

38 days annual leave (+ optionally 5)

Inspiring Families policy and Private/

Health cover and Life Assurance

Job summary

Women in Data is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in London to lead a growing team across the UK and India. You willOwn ingestion, transformation and delivery of data on a Snowflake-centric platform, moving to a governed, product-focused data estate that supports BI, APIs and AI use cases.

The role emphasizes hands-on data platform design, data quality, lineage, and security, with responsibility for scalable architecture and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data engineering, including leading data engineering teams within Asset Management or Financial Services.
• Hands-on Snowflake platform implementation experience, ideally in asset management.
• Deep technical knowledge of modern data platform architecture with medallion and lakehouse patterns, ELT and dimensional/domain modelling.
• Proven track record designing and delivering data products, including AI/analytics semantic layers.
• Practical experience embedding data governance tooling: data catalogue, data quality, lineage and observability.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, data privacy, access management and regulatory controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise ingestion, transformation and data provisioning on Snowflake-centric platform.
• Implement medallion architecture and promote data through raw->curated->consumption-ready layers.
• Set standards for ELT patterns, orchestration, modelling, testing, DataOps and CI/CD for data pipelines and observability.
• Develop reusable ingestion, transformation and consumption patterns for BI, APIs, data sharing and AI.
• Lead and mentor data engineers across UK and India; shift focus to reusable data products.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

dbt

Data modelling

Data governance

CI/CD

DataOps

Cloud security

AI experience

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Kubernetes

DBT

Job description

Women in Data is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in London to lead a growing team across the UK and India. You willOwn ingestion, transformation and delivery of data on a Snowflake-centric platform, moving to a governed, product-focused data estate that supports BI, APIs and AI use cases.

The role emphasizes hands-on data platform design, data quality, lineage, and security, with responsibility for scalable architecture and cross-functional collaboration.