Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid Cloud AI Platform Lead

Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced annual leave

Birthday leave

Enhanced maternity benefits

Personalised development plans

Structured training and development

Paid social events

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design and build our data platform, powering analytics and AI capabilities. This hands-on leadership role means you will own data structuring, governance and usage across the business, collaborating with the CTO and other senior stakeholders.

You will translate requirements into scalable data solutions, create data models, and architect AI-ready platforms with RAG, vector databases and LLM integrations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or Lead Data role.
• Hands-on experience designing cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience with AWS, Snowflake, or similar cloud data services.
• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, embeddings, and LLM integrations.
• Experience with both batch and streaming/real-time data processing.
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality management, lineage, and metadata frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, cloud-based data platforms and architectures.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable data solutions.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Design and implement modern AI-ready architectures, including RAG, vector databases, semantic search, and LLM integrations.
• Build and optimise data pipelines supporting both batch and real-time processing.
• Lead data integration, transformation, and migration initiatives.
• Establish and maintain data governance, data quality, metadata management, and security frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative approaches to enhance data and AI capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership, best practice guidance, and mentoring across data initiatives.

Skills

Senior Data Engineer

Cloud platforms

AWS

Snowflake

Data modeling

AI architectures

RAG/LLM

Data governance

MLOps

FinOps

Job description

Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design and build our data platform, powering analytics and AI capabilities. This hands-on leadership role means you will own data structuring, governance and usage across the business, collaborating with the CTO and other senior stakeholders.

You will translate requirements into scalable data solutions, create data models, and architect AI-ready platforms with RAG, vector databases and LLM integrations.