Lead Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake & ELT Expert

Morson Human Resources Limited; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge is partnering with a leading investment management firm to hire a Principal Data Engineer in Manchester. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to shape the organisation’s strategic data platform, centered on Snowflake with a growing data tech ecosystem.

The role focuses on designing scalable data solutions, building robust data pipelines, governance practices and enabling advanced analytics and AI capabilities, while emphasising security, privacy and

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering scalable data platform solutions.
• End-to-end ELT/data pipelines with performance, reliability and maintainability focus.
• Governance, data democratisation and data strategy adherence.
• Experience enabling advanced analytics, AI and machine learning on data platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code development in cloud environments.
• Awareness of data privacy, security and compliance requirements.
• Collaborative work in Agile environments and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering scalable data platform solutions using Snowflake and complementary technologies.
• Building and optimising end-to-end ELT/data pipelines, with a focus on performance, reliability and maintainability.
• Helping shape data strategy, engineering standards and best practices around governance and data democratisation.
• Supporting the adoption of advanced analytics, AI and machine learning capabilities.
• Developing Infrastructure as Code alongside Cloud Engineering.
• Ensuring solutions meet data privacy, security and compliance requirements.
• Working collaboratively within an Agile environment and across the wider business.
• Keeping up with emerging technologies and driving continuous improvement across the platform.

Skills

Snowflake

Snowpark

PySpark

Polars

Dask

Python

SQL

dbt

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

Artifactory

Agile

Tools

Docker

Java/Scala

Kafka

Pulsar

Azure Event Hub

Collibra

Apache Iceberg

Apache Arrow

Snowflake AI

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Pinecone

Job description

Morson Edge is partnering with a leading investment management firm to hire a Principal Data Engineer in Manchester. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to shape the organisation’s strategic data platform, centered on Snowflake with a growing data tech ecosystem.

The role focuses on designing scalable data solutions, building robust data pipelines, governance practices and enabling advanced analytics and AI capabilities, while emphasising security, privacy and