Lead Data Engineer - Mentoring & Scalable Cloud Data Pipelines

Limelight Health; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Annual bonus scheme

10% company pension

On-site gym

MediCash scheme

Flexible benefits and discounts

Job summary

Cavu is hiring a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve its data platform, enabling data-driven decision making across products and the wider business. You will lead a small team of Data Engineers, delivering scalable data solutions, modern cloud-based platforms, and robust ETL pipelines.

In this hybrid role, you will mentor engineers, collaborate with Data Scientists and Analysts, and drive governance, quality, and security practices while pushing for best-in-class data architecture and

Qualifications

• Lead or senior data engineer with project or people leadership experience.
• Experience designing and maintaining ETL pipelines, data warehouses and scalable platforms.
• Expert Python and SQL skills with large datasets and distributed systems.
• Hands-on AWS experience (Redshift, Lambda, EC2, Kinesis, Batch).
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and data modelling.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality and security principles.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Curious, collaborative mindset with continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Data Engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture.
• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to support business-critical data solutions.
• Partner with Data Scientists, Analysts and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Drive data quality by implementing validation, monitoring and governance best practice.
• Optimise the performance of databases, data warehouses and data lakes to support growing business demands.
• Evaluate and implement modern data technologies, tools and frameworks to enhance data processing and analytics capabilities.
• Define and promote data governance, privacy and security standards across the data platform.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Operations teams to deploy, maintain and support cloud-based data solutions.
• Provide technical expertise when troubleshooting complex data issues and continuously improve engineering standards across the team.

Skills

Lead data engineer

ETL pipelines

Python

SQL

AWS

Redshift

Data modelling

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems

Job description

Cavu is hiring a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve its data platform, enabling data-driven decision making across products and the wider business. You will lead a small team of Data Engineers, delivering scalable data solutions, modern cloud-based platforms, and robust ETL pipelines.

In this hybrid role, you will mentor engineers, collaborate with Data Scientists and Analysts, and drive governance, quality, and security practices while pushing for best-in-class data architecture and