Lead Data Engineer — AI-Driven Data Platform (London)

Viqu Limited; England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Viqu Limited in London seeks a Lead Data Engineer to shape and own the data engineering function. You will define standards, tooling, and delivery processes while personally delivering on the most complex pipeline work.

You will mentor a team, manage data infrastructure, and collaborate across Product, Data Science, Client Success, and Platform R&D, with a strong emphasis on AI integration within engineering workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Data Engineering/Platform roles
• 2+ years in a lead or senior capacity
• Proven line management experience
• Track record of building or improving engineering processes and team structures
• Expertise in SQL pipelines, Python orchestration, dimensional modelling, and star/snowflake schemas
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and metadata frameworks
• Comfortable working across product, AI, and client delivery teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Engineering function: standards, tooling, and delivery processes
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers including performance and development plans
• Lead recruitment and be the engineering voice in cross-functional planning
• Design and build ETL/ELT pipelines across operational, analytical, and AI data layers
• Lead schema design, model validation, scalable partitioning, and metadata-driven SQL frameworks
• Hands-on ownership of the most complex implementation work
• Define and evolve data models powering SCV, segmentation, AI features, and analytics
• Work across dimensional, event-based, and ML-aligned data structures
• Own CI/CD for data pipelines using Git-based workflows, deployment governance, and rollback handling
• Orchestrate ML model outputs into production pipelines with resilience controls
• Drive AI tooling adoption across engineering: code generation, data profiling, documentation, and testing
• Implement structured logging, alerting, SLA tracking, and access control

Skills

Data engineering

Line management

SQL pipelines

Python orchestration

Dimensional modelling

Star schema

Snowflake schema

CI/CD automation

Metadata frameworks

Cloud data infrastructure

Education

First-class STEM degree

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Viqu Limited in London seeks a Lead Data Engineer to shape and own the data engineering function. You will define standards, tooling, and delivery processes while personally delivering on the most complex pipeline work.

You will mentor a team, manage data infrastructure, and collaborate across Product, Data Science, Client Success, and Platform R&D, with a strong emphasis on AI integration within engineering workflows.