Lead Data Engineer/Data Architect

ZipRecruiter; York; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Onebright is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for a 6-month contract to enhance their data architecture. This specialist will focus on dbt implementations, governance frameworks, and mentoring junior staff in a high-urgency environment to ensure scalability and quality during a critical transition.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Employee assistance program

Private company pension

Access to Continuous Professional Development

Cash plan for health-related expenses

Rewards gateway for savings with retailers

Hybrid working arrangement

Learning opportunities through L&D platform

Referral program

Qualifications

• Proven track record in delivering data architecture projects.
• Hands-on experience in dbt or similar tools.
• Strong mentoring and documentation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Structure key elements of the data architecture.
• Deliver critical pipelines and enforce architectural standards.
• Mentor junior staff and lead transformation of legacy models.

Skills

Snowflake SQL data architectures

dbt

data warehousing design

CI/CD for data pipelines

Job description

Job Description

Do you have a deep understanding of dbt ? Are you comfortable working in a high urgency environment ? Here at Onebright we have a 6 month contract opportunity for a Lead Data Engineer , interested ?

About our opportunity

As Onebright’s Lead Data Engineer / Data Architect it will be your responsibility to structure key elements of our data architecture by delivering critical pipelines, enforcing architectural standards and enabling junior staff through hands-on mentoring. Your role will focus on delivering a specific line in dbt, defining and embedding governance frameworks, and architecting the foundational model pathway – ensuring long-term maintainability, scalability and quality of the warehouse during a critical staff transition.

What we need from you

• Proven track record delivering Snowflake SQL data architectures




• Hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent modelling tools




• Deep understanding of data warehousing design, SCD logic, and testing standards




• Experience implementing CI/CD for data pipelines (BitBucket, GitHub, etc.)




• Strong documentation and mentoring capabilities - able to uplift junior staff




• Demonstrated ability to lead refactoring or transformation of legacy pipelines and models




• Comfortable working in high-urgency environments with limited existing structure

About Onebright

At Onebright we help individuals and organisations with mental health and wellbeing solutions, providing every person with the best mental healthcare, offering hope for a better future. We work across the mental health continuum from performance optimisation, early intervention, prevention, and treatment.

Onebright has been providing clinical excellence in mental health across the UK for 30 years. It is a pioneer in clinical assessments and treatment for children through to adults, delivering services through more than 3,000 clinicians in 49 languages to more than 55,000 people per year.

Our deep understanding of mental health and unrivalled clinical expertise enables us to support businesses from the first interaction with us through to recovery. We have a breadth of existing relationships with the UK’s leading service providers of EAP, PMI and OH which gives us a unique ability to deliver consistent care to employees from whichever channel they reach us.

At Onebright, we lead with integrity and compassion and are here to help our clients every step of the way.

How we say thank you

An exciting career is much more than just a salary. We also understand that everyone, regardless of culture, , , , , neurodiversity, or status, can contribute to our goal to make our work better for all. Our strength is in our people. So, at Onebright we have a range of benefits that include:

• 26 days holiday with an option to purchase more through our holiday purchase scheme. Plus bank holidays on top.




• When you need support, we rely on our excellent Employee assistance program to help you with your wellbeing.




• A private company pension with Royal London enabling you to keep one eye on the future.




• Your development is critical to our success so giving you access to Continuous Professional Development is always available to you.




• A very useful cash plan to help with those unexpected health issues such as dentist, eye wear or prescriptions and much more.




• Rewards gateway giving you access to a plethora of little perks and savings with retailers.




• Many of our teams are happy to work in a hybrid working pattern so we provide a technology package to keep you connected to your Onebright Team.




• Learning new skills using our Onebright L&D platform for enquiring minds.




• We encourage and reward our staff to “Refer Friends Colleagues”.

At Onebright we go further. So we want to ensure that once you get here, you’ll still be going places.

Information to help you in your application.

• Onebright is committed to delivering in line with 'safer recruitment' principals and therefore the successful candidate will be required to undertake a credit check and a DBS check (Enhanced or Standard) with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the cost of which will be met by Onebright.




• Onebright is committed to adhering to the Equality Act 2010 and provides equal opportunities to all applicants, staff and clients. Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will organise appropriate support.




• Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and we will seek to complete a Right To Work check for all candidates.




• For further information please email [e-mail] or call the Onebright Recruitment Team on 01904 933519 for more information.