Lead Data Engineer

Tenth Revolution Group; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Remote; GBP 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options

Private medical insurance

Fully remote UK

Autonomy

Leadership path

Job summary

Tenth Revolution Group is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own and shape scalable data platforms, enabling advanced analytics, ML and AI capabilities. This senior, hands-on role involves close collaboration with product, engineering and leadership to deliver impact across enterprise clients.

Fully remote in the UK, the position offers £110,000 salary, share options and private medical insurance, with strong autonomy and clear path into leadership as the data function grows.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production-grade data platforms.
• Expertise in data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling and orchestration.
• Experience working with large-scale or complex datasets.
• Background delivering analytics and business intelligence solutions.
• Experience designing secure data services and APIs.
• Knowledge of machine learning data foundations and modern AI-enablement practices.
• Strong understanding of statistics, experimentation and data-driven decision making.
• Experience working within enterprise or highly regulated environments.
• Passion for engineering excellence, security, quality and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data platforms and pipelines.
• Develop Data-as-a-Service capabilities across products and customer solutions.
• Create trusted analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions.
• Design and manage secure, reliable data services and APIs.
• Build data infrastructure supporting machine learning, statistical models and AI systems.
• Establish best practices for data quality, governance, lineage, metadata and observability.
• Embed security, privacy and compliance into data architecture and engineering processes.
• Collaborate across technical and commercial teams to influence data strategy and architecture.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modelling

Analytics

AI/data foundations

Statistics & experimentation

Security & compliance

Tools

AWS data & analytics

Job description

Lead Data Engineer

Remote UK - £110,000 + Share Options + Private Medical Insurance

A high-growth, venture-backed AI technology company is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of its data, analytics and AI capabilities. This is an opportunity to join an innovative organisation delivering cutting-edge AI-powered solutions to major enterprise clients, helping transform complex data into meaningful business intelligence.

The Opportunity

This is a senior, hands-on position offering significant technical ownership and influence. Working closely with product, engineering, data science and leadership teams, you'll design and build scalable data platforms that power advanced analytics, machine learning, decision intelligence and emerging AI technologies. As the business continues to grow, there will be the opportunity to help build and lead a wider data function.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data platforms and pipelines.
• Develop Data-as-a-Service capabilities across products and customer solutions.
• Create trusted analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions.
• Design and manage secure, reliable data services and APIs.
• Build data infrastructure supporting machine learning, statistical models and AI systems.
• Establish best practices for data quality, governance, lineage, metadata and observability.
• Embed security, privacy and compliance into data architecture and engineering processes.
• Collaborate across technical and commercial teams to influence data strategy and architecture.

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production-grade data platforms.
• Expertise in data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling and orchestration.
• Experience working with large-scale or complex datasets.
• Background delivering analytics and business intelligence solutions.
• Experience designing secure data services and APIs.
• Knowledge of machine learning data foundations and modern AI-enablement practices.
• Strong understanding of statistics, experimentation and data-driven decision making.
• Experience working within enterprise or highly regulated environments.
• Passion for engineering excellence, security, quality and continuous improvement.

• AWS data and analytics ecosystem

What's on Offer?

• Salary of £110,000.
• Share options.
• Private medical insurance.
• Fully remote UK-based working.
• High levels of autonomy and technical ownership.
• Opportunity to shape the future direction of data and AI within a rapidly scaling technology business.
• Clear progression into leadership as the organisation grows.

Eligibility

Applicants must be based in the UK, have the right to work in the UK, have continuously resided in the UK for the previous five years and be able to complete relevant pre-employment screening.