Senior Data Engineer & Data Platform Leader

Zego; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension

Share options

Annual bonus

£1,000 a year to spend on getting to a

Cutting-edge systems and tools

Job summary

Zego is hiring a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve our data platform as we scale. This hands-on role requires building scalable, secure data systems while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices across CI/CD, testing and observability.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Product to ensure data systems meet analytics and operational needs while guiding architectural decisions and future-proofing the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Data Engineer working on scalable data platforms, ideally in product-led or high-growth environments.
• Proven expertise in designing, building, and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and large-scale data architectures.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern data stacks — Python, SQL, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, AWS S3, PostgresDB, Airflow, dbt, Spark; deployed via AWS, Docker, Terraform.
• Collaborative and cross-functional stakeholder engagement to translate technical concepts into business value.
• Mentorship: supporting the growth of other engineers through code reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical reference point for the Data Engineering team.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and deliver high-quality work.
• Promote best practices in data engineering, including testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure data pipelines, warehouses, and streaming systems.
• Ensure data is modelled and structured to meet analytics, data science, and operational needs.
• Contribute to the evolution of data architecture to meet current and future business needs.
• Partner with teams across the business to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Identify opportunities for optimisation, re-architecture, or tool improvements.
• Contribute to the definition and execution of the technical roadmap for data engineering.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data platform design

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

AWS S3

PostgresDB

Airflow

dbt

Apache Spark

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Kafka

Kinesis

MLOps

Data Mesh / Lakehouse

Tools

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

AWS S3

PostgresDB

Airflow

dbt

Apache Spark

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Zego is hiring a Lead Data Engineer to shape and evolve our data platform as we scale. This hands-on role requires building scalable, secure data systems while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices across CI/CD, testing and observability.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Product to ensure data systems meet analytics and operational needs while guiding architectural decisions and future-proofing the platform.