Lead Data Engineer: Databricks Migration & Modern Data

Tenth Revolution Group; North East; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £80,000

Hybrid Newcastle-based role

Lead data modernisation programme

Exposure to cloud and data tech

Career progression

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Tenth Revolution Group is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Newcastle with hybrid working arrangements. The role focuses on migrating on-prem data platforms to a modern Databricks-based architecture and leading a team of engineers and analysts to deliver scalable data solutions.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to shape data products, drive governance, and raise performance, reliability and scalability across the data platform. This is a strategic data transformation leadership position.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership or mentoring experience in data engineering.
• Hands-on Databricks experience.
• Experience delivering cloud-based data platforms and migrations.
• Strong SQL and ETL/ELT pipeline skills.
• Knowledge of Azure data technologies is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of data platforms from on-premise environments to Databricks.
• Design and develop scalable data pipelines and data integration solutions.
• Drive best practices across data engineering, architecture and governance.
• Mentor and support data engineers/analysts within the team.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Improve platform performance, reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to the long‑term data strategy and roadmap.

Skills

Leadership

Databricks

Cloud platforms

SQL

ETL/ELT

Azure knowledge

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Job description

Tenth Revolution Group is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Newcastle with hybrid working arrangements. The role focuses on migrating on-prem data platforms to a modern Databricks-based architecture and leading a team of engineers and analysts to deliver scalable data solutions.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to shape data products, drive governance, and raise performance, reliability and scalability across the data platform. This is a strategic data transformation leadership position.