Staff Engineer (Data) | Fully remote (UK) | Up to £125k

Oliver Bernard; United States; Remote; GBP 113,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard in the United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Engineer (Data) to set the technical direction across data, analytics and AI-powered products. The role is fully remote within the UK, with the opportunity to influence architecture and mentor senior engineers in a fast-growing EdTech data platform environment.

Qualifications

• Current Staff/Principal/Architect title with architectural direction across three or more teams.
• Strong data architecture and modelling experience (Star, Medallion).
• Experience in cloud-native environments, especially Snowflake.
• Depth across more than one data discipline (platform, analytics, data science or AI).
• Able to translate business goals into technical strategy and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for the data domain from OLTP to OLAP and analytics foundations for AI products.
• Set direction across multiple teams, collaborating with Product Directors and Technical Leads.
• Architect infrastructure for LLM orchestration, RAG and real-time model inference.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and drive AI-first ways of working.
• Influence decisions and accompany architecture with stakeholder buy-in.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Cloud-native

Snowflake

AI-first engineering

Stakeholder management

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

Staff Engineer (Data) | Fully remote (UK) | Up to £125k

We're partnered with a product-led scale-up in EdTech, with software used by thousands of schools across the UK. Underneath the product suite sits a large data platform, and on top of it a fast-growing set of AI and agentic features. They need a Staff Engineer to set the technical direction across all three.

The role

• Own architecture for the data domain, from transactional databases (OLTP) through to analytics and reporting (OLAP) and the foundations their AI products run on
• Set direction across multiple teams you don’t manage, working closely with Product Directors and Technical Leads
• Architect the infrastructure behind LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and real-time model inference
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and help lead a genuine shift to AI-first ways of working
• Influence as much as you design: expect to spend as much time getting stakeholders bought in as you do on the architecture itself

Why it’s worth a look

• Real scope and real ownership. This is a data architect role in practice, with a Staff Engineer title and the influence to match
• An AI-first culture where the team already uses AI tools daily, and you’ll help embed that into how they build
• Fully remote within the UK, with occasional in-person catch-ups
• A company where your decisions are visible and your impact is felt throughout

What they’re looking for

• A current Staff, Principal or Architect title, with architectural direction set across three or more teams
• Strong data architecture and modelling experience (Star, Medallion) in cloud-native environments such as Snowflake
• Depth in more than one data discipline (platform, analytics, data science or AI), and honesty about where you’re lighter
• Comfortable being the person in the room with product and commercial leaders, translating business goals into technical strategy
• A view on how AI-first engineering will change the data ecosystem, ideally backed by worked examples

This probably isn’t for you if you want to ship code day to day, have spent your career in one layer of the stack, or prefer the technical side to the stakeholder side.

Staff Engineer (Data) | Fully remote (UK) | Up to £125k