Lead Data Engineer

RedCloud; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supply chain technology provider in Greater London is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect and manage their data warehouse. In this role, you'll design and maintain ETL solutions, deliver actionable data insights, and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have expertise in SQL, database design, and Python. This position offers benefits like annual leave, enhanced pension, and private healthcare, within a rapidly growing international company.

Benefits

25 Days Annual leave

Enhanced Company Pension

Healthcare cashplan

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Access to discounts on various services

Stock / equity

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of SQL and data modeling techniques.
• Experience with database design and management systems.
• Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Architect the data warehouse to support business needs.
• Design, build, and maintain ELT solutions for data ingestion.
• Deliver data insights and assist customers with data interpretation.
• Resolve bugs and manage production system issues.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior team members.

Skills

SQL

Database Design (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Python

Data Warehouse architecture

Code reviews

Education

Relevant degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About RedCloud

The global supply chain is broken—creating a $2 trillion inventory gap where essential consumer goods fail to reach the people who need them. Brands miss sales, distributors mismanage stock, and retailers face empty shelves. The result? Higher prices, slower growth, and lost opportunity across the board.

RedCloud is fixing this. Our RedAI digital trading platform, bulk and retail trading exchanges connect key parts of the supply chain—enabling bulk inventory exchange, streamlined digital payments, and generating vast quantities of aggregated market data. By applying AI and machine learning techniques, we deliver predictive market insight and trading recommendations straight back to the trading environment—facilitating smarter everyday business decisions for our customers, from factory to warehouse to store.

Headquartered in London, RedCloud became a publicly listed company on Nasdaq (RCT) in March 2025. With a diverse team spanning many nationalities and operations across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America, we’re building a more connected and efficient global trade network. Our AI labs are busy exploring the next generation of smart AI agents and deeper FMCG market intelligence for the benefit of our customers across a growing operational footprint.

The role

A Lead Data Engineer builds, maintains and supports our data warehouse, delivering data to the whole business in an easy, performant and readable format. They are the core engineers that empower the data behind our AI strategies and business decisions. They will work in a squad alongside data scientists and AI engineers allowing for a whole picture on how the data is used. The ideal candidate will have technical skills across SQL, Database Design (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and Python.

What will you be doing

Architect Data Warehouse

Own the architecture and flow of data into our data warehouse through collaboration with the squad, other squads, and the wider business. Partner with the product manager to support and deliver a data warehouse that is performant, readable, easy to use, and enables the business needs of other teams.

Design, Build and Maintain ELT Solutions

Design, build and maintain systems to consume data from other internal RedCloud systems and external partners and/or customers.

Deliver Data Insights

Work with colleagues through the business and directly with customers helping them to understand the data we have, build and refine models to help them deliver impact, carry out change or drive additional revenue through our customer base.

Resolve Bugs

Investigate and resolve bugs in our systems.

Handle production Outages / issues

Respond to production outages and issues in our systems.

Estimate Features / Bugs

Estimate features and bugs within estimation sessions alongside the team.

Refine feature requirements

Refine features delivered by product managers.

Carry out code reviews

Carry out code reviews / pull‑request reviews for other engineers, ensuring quality of code.

Keeping pace with Technology

As a senior member of the squad, train and learn the latest technologies adopted by RedCloud, suggesting future libraries and patterns we should be looking at as a business.

Soft Skills

Mentor Members of the Team

Mentor all levels of engineers and new starters in the team, as their RedCloud buddy. Ensure they have all they need to succeed within your team.

Communication

Communicate effectively and clearly to those within your team and across the business.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Your unique experiences and perspectives might be just what we’re looking for.

Benefits

• 25 Days Annual leave, increasing to 26 days after 12 months in the business
• Enhanced Company Pension (matched up to 5% & salary sacrifice)
• Healthcare cashplan with Medicash
• Private healthcare with Aviva
• Life insurance with AIG
• Happl, our benefit platform which provides access to pre‑negotiated discounts on a wide variety of services including entertainment, food, and fitness.
• Stock / equity

Working with a pioneering provider of eCommerce solutions you will have the opportunity to join an international company that is growing massively; we encourage ambition and creativity.