Senior Lead Data Engineer - Cloud Data & AI Enablement

HCL Technologies Limited; Adur; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking a Senior Lead Data Engineer to guide a multidisciplinary team delivering data products end-to-end on a modern cloud data platform. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, architecture input, and governance through design, build, test and go-live.

You will mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and DevOps practices, and collaborate with architecture leads on data modelling and MDM. Bristol or Manchester-based, with hybrid options per policy.

Qualifications

• Senior data engineer with expert-level cloud data platform experience (GCP or similar).
• Hands-on Python/dbt/SQL with strong ETL/ELT design ability.
• Proven track record delivering data products end-to-end in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead a feature team delivering data products end-to-end.
• Own delivery from source selection through go-live and governance.
• Drive best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD and DevOps.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

CI/CD

DevOps

Data modelling

ETL/ELT design

Governance

Architecture collaboration

Code quality

Hands-on engineering

Tools

GCP

dbt

Python

SQL

Job description

HCLTech is seeking a Senior Lead Data Engineer to guide a multidisciplinary team delivering data products end-to-end on a modern cloud data platform. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, architecture input, and governance through design, build, test and go-live.

You will mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and DevOps practices, and collaborate with architecture leads on data modelling and MDM. Bristol or Manchester-based, with hybrid options per policy.