Lead Data Engineer – Cloud Pipelines & Finance Transformation

British Airways; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel benefits

Discounted airfares

Job summary

British Airways is seeking a Principal Data Engineer – Finance & Transformation to lead hands-on data engineering, shaping ingestion, storage, and processing across the organization. You will drive scalable pipelines, data products, and secure data platforms while guiding senior engineers and delivering DevOps-aligned operations.

You will excel in SQL, cloud-native data tooling, and data security, collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize data processing and governance.

Qualifications

• Excellent SQL development experience.
• Experience with data ingestion, processing, and storage on cloud-native tooling.
• Experience with cloud data management (Snowflake, AWS, DBT) at scale.
• Knowledge of data modelling and optimisation.
• Expertise in data processing, testing, and monitoring practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build data pipelines for secure, scalable delivery of data.
• Maintain and operate data products for availability and performance.
• Ensure code and automation scripts manage data flows.
• Lead service reviews and incident investigations to improve reliability.
• Set standards for data processing documentation and version control.
• Support engineers with engineering patterns and automated testing practices.
• Lead agile ceremonies, planning, and retrospectives for continuous improvement.
• Define and measure developer experience with data product teams.
• Line manage Senior Data Engineers; be on-call on a rota basis.

Skills

SQL development

Data ingestion & processing

Cloud data tooling

Data security & governance

CI/CD in data ops

Data modelling & optimisation

Data quality & monitoring

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

DBT

Job description

British Airways is seeking a Principal Data Engineer – Finance & Transformation to lead hands-on data engineering, shaping ingestion, storage, and processing across the organization. You will drive scalable pipelines, data products, and secure data platforms while guiding senior engineers and delivering DevOps-aligned operations.

You will excel in SQL, cloud-native data tooling, and data security, collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize data processing and governance.