Senior Data Engineer & Practice Lead (Remote-First)

YLD; Greater London; Remote; GBP 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company Private Health care (Vitality)

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Company Pension Scheme

25 days annual holiday

Training/conference allowance

Hardware allowance

Mental health support

Bonus (performance-based)

Company laptop

Referral schemes

Zusammenfassung

YLD, a London‑based software engineering and product design consultancy, is building out its data practice with a senior data leader who can credibly speak to clients and translate problems into defensible data approaches.

You will sit alongside commercial leadership, guide engagements, and help shape proposals while staying close to client work to ensure delivery credibility and impact across data initiatives.

Qualifikationen

• Strong data engineer or data lead with client-facing experience
• Led a team or function
• Comfortable presenting to senior client stakeholders
• Consulting or agency experience a plus, but not required if client exposure exists
• Experience with data warehouses, pipelines, and governance

Aufgaben

• Hands-on data engineering work: pipelines, transformations, models, and infrastructure
• Adapt to diverse client contexts and migrations
• Mentor and grow data engineers across the company
• Join client meetings as technical authority on data
• Shape proposals and defend data-driven scopes in engagements
• Represent YLD at data events and build external reputation

Kenntnisse

SQL

Python

Data modelling

Transformation architecture

Pipeline design

Data testing

Data observability

CI/CD for data

Data governance

Cost-conscious

Platform fluency

AI Native

Leadership

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

dbt

Spark

Fivetran

Airbyte

Jobbeschreibung

YLD, a London‑based software engineering and product design consultancy, is building out its data practice with a senior data leader who can credibly speak to clients and translate problems into defensible data approaches.

You will sit alongside commercial leadership, guide engagements, and help shape proposals while staying close to client work to ensure delivery credibility and impact across data initiatives.