Lead Data Engineer - Platform Architect (Hybrid London)

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Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 122,000 - 149,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Global Insurance Group is evolving its data platform in London with a Lead Data Engineer role focused on building a unified, governed data platform. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic ownership of the Data & Analytics pillar, reporting to the Group CTO.

You will lead a small team and collaborate with external data platform specialists to deliver a scalable, compliant data ecosystem. You will drive the design of a medallion architecture, implement ELT pipelines, and enable

Qualifications

Hands-on data engineering with modern architectures.
Experience in FCA-regulated or highly structured environments.
Certifications (SnowPro, dbt, Azure Data) are bonus evidence, not barriers.

Responsibilities

Manage and optimize the Snowflake data platform with compute/storage separation.
Build a modern medallion architecture (Bronze-Silver-Gold) using ELT tooling.
Establish version-controlled, tested data models with dbt for auditable transformations.
Define canonical data definitions to drive unified analytics across units.
Expose governed datasets via Power BI and Sigma for fast insights.
Integrate Snowflake Cortex and LLM-based extraction to map metadata and transform documents.
Instrument and control warehouse consumption; enforce data residency in pipelines.
Lead cross-functional collaboration to drive data platform governance and delivery.