Senior Data Engineer — Lead Cloud Data Pipelines

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

Job summary

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions), part of Vodafone Group, seeks a Lead Data Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in Data Products & Insights. You will design and deliver complex, product-facing data solutions, including pipelines, transformations, models and serving interfaces, aligning with architecture standards.

Based flexibly in the UK (Newbury or Paddington) with cross-functional collaboration across Architecture, Platform, Product, Data Science and ML/AI Engineering, you

Qualifications

• Extensive production Data Engineering experience with technical leadership of complex data solutions.
• Advanced Python and SQL capability.
• Strong experience with dbt or equivalent transformation/orchestration tooling.
• Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform data services or equivalent cloud technologies.
• Proven experience designing reliable batch, streaming and event-driven pipelines.
• Deep understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, observability, data quality, lineage, security and operational supportability.
• Experience designing scalable, resilient and maintainable data solutions within established architecture and platform standards.
• Sound technical judgement around data contracts, scalability, cloud cost, resilience and reuse of shared platform services.
• Evidence of technical mentoring, critical design and code review, and leadership during production incidents.
• Ability to provide technical direction through influence and collaboration across Architecture, Platform, Product, Data Science and ML & AI Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex data products, pipelines, transformations, models and serving interfaces within agreed architecture and platform guardrails.
• Drive adoption and assurance of engineering practices across Python, SQL, data transformation, orchestration, CI/CD, automated testing, data quality, observability and documentation.
• Review critical designs and code, providing technical direction to improve quality and maintainability.
• Resolve complex production issues and ensure solutions meet scalability, security, resilience, and operability standards.
• Define reusable product-engineering patterns while avoiding duplication of shared platform capabilities or bypassing controls.
• Escalate cross-domain architectural decisions to the Lead Data Architect where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Data Science and ML/AI teams on trusted features, training data, inference data and outcome data.
• Design and support reliable batch, streaming and event-driven data pipelines.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers through critical design reviews, code reviews and production-incident resolution.
• Contribute to estimates, tooling choices and technology selections.

Skills

Python

SQL

dbt

GCP

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Production data

Job description

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions), part of Vodafone Group, seeks a Lead Data Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in Data Products & Insights. You will design and deliver complex, product-facing data solutions, including pipelines, transformations, models and serving interfaces, aligning with architecture standards.

Based flexibly in the UK (Newbury or Paddington) with cross-functional collaboration across Architecture, Platform, Product, Data Science and ML/AI Engineering, you