Remote Lead Data Platform Engineer

Leidos

United Kingdom

Hybrid

GBP 76,000 - 100,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Paid Leave

Retirement benefits

Flexible working

Job summary

Leidos UK is seeking a Data Engineer Lead to drive the engineering delivery and productionisation of the Data Intelligence Platform for FDSS and related data capabilities. The role owns the technical path from prototypes to secure, governed data products and platform services.

You will lead ingestion, streaming, lakehouse and data products, set engineering standards, coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, and mentor engineers to ensure resilience, monitoring and secure access across the delivery

Qualifications

Lead the engineering delivery for a production cloud data platform.
Turn prototypes into production-ready data services.
Coordinate cross-disciplinary data engineering and governance.

Responsibilities

Own the Data Intelligence Platform engineering strategy, roadmap and productionisation standards.
Lead design and delivery of ingestion, event streaming, lakehouse, serving and analytical data products.
Establish engineering patterns for batch and low-latency data, APIs and data access.
Define and implement data quality, lineage, metadata, catalogue and reconciliation controls.
Embed CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability and secure configuration into the lifecycle.
Lead production readiness across resilience, monitoring, backup, recovery and data protection.
Coordinate platform dependencies, environments, suppliers and interfaces with wider FDSS and ESCS services.
Set technical priorities, estimate delivery and mentor data engineers.
Support governance with transparent measures of platform quality, readiness, performance and value.