Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Platform Leader

Hatched Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid London office

Healthcare coverage

Dental cover

Pension plan

Life assurance

Income protection

4pm finish on Fridays

Home office allowance

Career progression

Job summary

Hatched Recruitment Group is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to shape a modern cloud data platform in a hybrid London-based role.

You will provide technical leadership, define engineering standards, and mentor engineers to build scalable data solutions while collaborating with analytics and platform teams. The role focuses on technical excellence and impactful architectural direction.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Data Engineering and modern cloud data platforms (AWS preferred).
• Strong SQL expertise and experience with ELT tools like dbt.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines and data warehouses.
• Knowledge of AWS technologies such as Redshift, S3 and Athena.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, warehouse models and transformations.
• Own the day-to-day technical direction of the cloud data platform, ensuring performance and cost-efficiency.
• Define engineering standards, code quality, CI/CD processes and best practices across the team.
• Drive improvements in data quality, observability, monitoring and governance.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science and Platform Engineering teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

Skills

Data Engineering

Cloud Platforms

SQL

Problem Solving

Observability

Data Governance

Data Modeling

Leadership Influence

Cost Optimization

Mentoring (Tech)

Tools

dbt

Airflow

AWS

Redshift

Job description

Hatched Recruitment Group is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to shape a modern cloud data platform in a hybrid London-based role.

You will provide technical leadership, define engineering standards, and mentor engineers to build scalable data solutions while collaborating with analytics and platform teams. The role focuses on technical excellence and impactful architectural direction.