Lead Data Engineer

RedCloud; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-forward supply chain company in the United Kingdom is looking for a Lead Data Engineer. In this role, you'll architect and maintain the data warehouse, design ELT solutions, and mentor your team. Proficient in SQL, Database Design, and Python, you will collaborate closely with data scientists while delivering insightful data analysis to enhance business performance. Benefits include annual leave, enhanced pension, and private healthcare.

Benefits

25 Days Annual leave

Enhanced Company Pension

Healthcare Cashplan

Private Healthcare

Life Insurance

Benefit platform access

Stock / Equity

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in SQL and Database Design.
• Hands-on experience with Python for data engineering.
• Ability to mentor and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and flow of data into our data warehouse.
• Design, build and maintain ELT solutions.
• Deliver data insights to customers and colleagues.
• Investigate and resolve bugs in systems.
• Respond to production outages and issues.
• Carry out code reviews for quality assurance.
• Mentor members of the team to ensure success.

Skills

SQL

Database Design

Python

Tools

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

MySQL

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 on code.
• Keeping Pace with Technology: As a senior member of the squad train and learn 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