Lead Data Engineer: Data Platform & Cloud Architect

Somerset Bridge; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days annual leave

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension scheme

Flexible working

Wrkit wellbeing app

Relief/Wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan

EV salary sacrifice

Employee discounts

Job summary

Somerset Bridge is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive the design, development and evolution of data platforms and infrastructure that support underwriting, pricing and risk decision-making across the business. We welcome senior engineers ready to take the next step into leadership.

This senior role partners with Underwriting, Pricing, Data Science and Technology to shape data strategy, ensure secure, reliable platforms and deliver scalable data solutions that enable advanced analytics and

Qualifications

• Expert-level SQL and Python for scalable data solutions and pipelines.
• Extensive experience with large-scale data processing and optimisation.
• Hands-on with Databricks and enterprise data warehousing tech like Snowflake/PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of data architecture, modelling and medallion patterns.
• Experience building Lakehouse and data warehouse for reporting and ML workloads.
• Experience with data governance, GDPR/Solvency II compliance and security controls.
• Leadership and mentoring of Data Engineers; stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and continuous improvement of scalable data pipelines, platforms and analytics frameworks for underwriting, pricing and risk analytics.
• Architect and integrate diverse data sources (telematics, claims, policy, third-party) into enterprise analytics solutions.
• Own and optimise the pricing data environment within the cloud data platform for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with Pricing, Underwriting, Actuarial and Data Science to deliver data-driven solutions.
• Champion data governance, lineage, security and regulatory compliance across the data ecosystem.
• Drive platform performance, reliability and engineering efficiency; identify optimisation opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Data Engineers; establish standards and code reviews.
• Coordinate team activity across pricing and data initiatives to align with business priorities.
• Lead strategic data initiatives: platform modernisation, cloud migration, tooling evaluations and POC projects.
• Oversee development and support of pricing data products within the Enterprise Data Platform.

Skills

SQL

Python

Databricks

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Lakehouse

Data governance

CI/CD

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder mgmt

Mentoring

People management

Insurance data

GDPR compliance

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Somerset Bridge is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive the design, development and evolution of data platforms and infrastructure that support underwriting, pricing and risk decision-making across the business. We welcome senior engineers ready to take the next step into leadership.

This senior role partners with Underwriting, Pricing, Data Science and Technology to shape data strategy, ensure secure, reliable platforms and deliver scalable data solutions that enable advanced analytics and