Lead Data Engineer - Snowflake Data Platform & Global Team

M&G plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 18%

Share Save Plan

38 days annual leave

Private Healthcare

Job summary

M&G plc seeks a Lead Data Engineer to drive design and delivery of data products on a Snowflake-centric platform in London. You will lead engineers across the UK and India, shaping scalable pipelines, governance, and security while partnering with analytics and AI teams to unlock business value.

The role requires hands-on execution and strong leadership to elevate data engineering standards, reduce technical debt, and deliver trustworthy, production-ready data products aligned with regulatory

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading data engineering teams in financial services.
• Proven ability to deliver end-to-end data products with governance.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake medallion architecture and lakehouse patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, production-grade data pipelines on Snowflake.
• Lead and mentor UK and offshore data engineers.
• Define data governance, security, and observability standards.
• Collaborate with AI, analytics and product teams to deliver data products.

Skills

Data engineering

Technical leadership

Cloud data platforms

End-to-end data products

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Databricks

Python

dbt

CI/CD

Job description

M&G plc seeks a Lead Data Engineer to drive design and delivery of data products on a Snowflake-centric platform in London. You will lead engineers across the UK and India, shaping scalable pipelines, governance, and security while partnering with analytics and AI teams to unlock business value.

The role requires hands-on execution and strong leadership to elevate data engineering standards, reduce technical debt, and deliver trustworthy, production-ready data products aligned with regulatory