Lead Data Engineer — AI‑Driven Data Platform

Sonovate; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Techscheme with Apple

Eye care vouchers

Gym membership discount

Charity leave

Job summary

Sonovate is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own end-to-end data product delivery, from data acquisition to analytical enablement within our fintech platform. You will shape data pipelines, coach engineers, and lead design discussions while collaborating with the infrastructure team and Principal Software Engineers.

You will work with Python, SQL, dbt and Azure-based tooling, delivering impactful data capabilities and AI-enabled features across the product stack.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating APIs and working with structured and semi-structured data (JSON, Avro, XML), including batch and streaming pipelines.
• Leads design on feature-level complexity problems and breaks down engineering challenges independently.
• Coaches others on design patterns, domain knowledge, and engineering practices.
• Track record of taking data products from PoC through to production.
• Proficient with Git and Azure DevOps for source control and CI/CD orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of data products end to end, from initial acquisition through analytical enablement.
• Lead root cause analysis on complex platform issues and evaluate new tooling.
• Coach peers on patterns and engineering excellence; influence infrastructure decisions as needed.
• Collaborate with data capability and wider infrastructure teams to support end-to-end data delivery.
• Contribute to customer-facing data products as part of the team’s shift towards externally visible data capability.

Skills

APIs integration

Data pipelines

Mentoring

Data product lifecycle

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Python

SQL

dbt

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

Snowflake features

Terraform

Ansible

Azure services

C# .NET Core

Job description

Sonovate is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own end-to-end data product delivery, from data acquisition to analytical enablement within our fintech platform. You will shape data pipelines, coach engineers, and lead design discussions while collaborating with the infrastructure team and Principal Software Engineers.

You will work with Python, SQL, dbt and Azure-based tooling, delivering impactful data capabilities and AI-enabled features across the product stack.