Lead Data Engineer - Hybrid, Mentorship & Data Platform

Zego; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-competitive salary

Annual performance bonus

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Job summary

Zego is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve our data platform as we scale. You will design scalable, secure data pipelines and collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Product to ensure reliable analytics infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices in data engineering, and contribute to the evolving data architecture to support current and future needs. Hybrid work with London or Halifax offices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Data Engineer working on scalable data platforms.
• Experience designing, building, and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and large-scale data architectures.
• Hands-on with modern data stacks: Python, SQL, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, AWS S3, PostgresDB, Airflow, dbt, Spark; deployed via AWS, Docker, Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical reference point for the Data Engineering team.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, helping them grow their technical skills.
• Promote best practices in data engineering, including testing, CI/CD, observability, and IaC.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Mentorship

Problem solving

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

Airflow

dbt

Apache Spark

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Zego is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve our data platform as we scale. You will design scalable, secure data pipelines and collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Product to ensure reliable analytics infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices in data engineering, and contribute to the evolving data architecture to support current and future needs. Hybrid work with London or Halifax offices.