Senior Data Engineer — Lead AI-Driven Data Platform Hybrid

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

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced annual leave & birthday leave

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced maternity benefits

Personalised development plans

Structured training and certification

Cycle to Work scheme

Job summary

Cloud Bridge is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle Upon Tyne, with leadership responsibility for the data platform strategy and implementation. You will shape how data is structured, governed, and leveraged across the business, partnering with the CTO to drive analytics and AI initiatives.

You will design scalable cloud-based data architectures, oversee data governance and security, and mentor teams while delivering end-to-end data solutions for enterprise reporting and advanced

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or Lead Data role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience building modern AI-enabled data architectures and knowledge of RAG, vector databases, embeddings.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, cloud-based data platforms and architectures.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable data solutions.
• Develop data models: conceptual, logical, physical.
• Design AI-ready architectures, including RAG, vector DBs, LLMs integrations.
• Build and optimise data pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
• Lead data integration, transformation, and migration initiatives.
• Establish data governance, quality, metadata management, and security frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative approaches.

Skills

Senior leadership

Cloud data platform design

Data governance & quality

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, Bedrock)

Azure (Synapse, Data Factory, Azure SQL)

Databricks (Delta Lake, ETL, ML workloads)

Snowflake

Job description

Cloud Bridge is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Newcastle Upon Tyne, with leadership responsibility for the data platform strategy and implementation. You will shape how data is structured, governed, and leveraged across the business, partnering with the CTO to drive analytics and AI initiatives.

You will design scalable cloud-based data architectures, oversee data governance and security, and mentor teams while delivering end-to-end data solutions for enterprise reporting and advanced