Lead Data Engineer — Cloud Platform Owner (Remote UK)

Cedar Recruitment; London; Remote; NOK 957,000 - 1,084,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 20%

Excellent pension

Job summary

Cedar Recruitment seeks a Lead Data Engineer for a permanent, remote-UK role. You will own a modern cloud data platform, drive architecture and data modelling, and deliver scalable data pipelines with strong autonomy.

You will operate hands-on, guide junior engineers, and collaborate with external partners during the data transformation programme. Visa sponsorship is not available; UK right to work required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Senior/Lead Data Engineer with experience in Python/PySpark, SQL and cloud platforms.
• Experience with data pipelines and ETL/ELT, Lakehouse architectures and dimensional modelling.
• Ownership of production data platforms, data quality and governance, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong practical knowledge of Azure-based data services and Snowflake or similar.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of a modern cloud data platform.
• Own existing architecture and improve it where appropriate.
• Design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines and data models.
• Work across Lakehouse architectures (Bronze-Silver-Gold) and dimensional models.
• Own platform reliability, monitoring, performance and incident management.
• Establish standards around data quality, governance, lineage and security.
• Implement and improve CI/CD and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into data solutions.
• Manage knowledge transfer from external suppliers and develop internal capability.

Skills

Python/PySpark

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Data pipelines/ETL/ELT

Lakehouse/medallion

Dimensional modelling

Star schemas

CI/CD

Data governance

Production ownership

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Synapse

Azure Data Factory

Snowflake

Job description

Cedar Recruitment seeks a Lead Data Engineer for a permanent, remote-UK role. You will own a modern cloud data platform, drive architecture and data modelling, and deliver scalable data pipelines with strong autonomy.

You will operate hands-on, guide junior engineers, and collaborate with external partners during the data transformation programme. Visa sponsorship is not available; UK right to work required.